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Author : Ralph Hancock
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 1948
Category : Mexico
ISBN : UTEXAS:059172119166910
Author : Fernando Benítez
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 1975
Category : History
ISBN : UVA:X006172691
"In the Magic Land of Peyote is the first English translation of En la tierra mágica del peyote, which has since been incorporated in the author's three-volume work Los indios de México."--From synopsis.
Author : W. Lavallin Puxley
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 288 pages
File Size : 42,8 Mb
Release : 1928
Category : Central America
ISBN : UTEXAS:059173017878455
Author : John M. Findlay
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 410 pages
File Size : 41,9 Mb
Release : 1993-09-22
Category : History
ISBN : 9780520084353
The American West conjures up images of pastoral tranquility and wide open spaces, but by 1970 the Far West was the most urbanized section of the country. Exploring four intriguing cityscapes—Disneyland, Stanford Industrial Park, Sun City, and the 1962 Seattle World's Fair—John Findlay shows how each created a sense of cohesion and sustained people's belief in their superior urban environment. This first book-length study of the urban West after 1940 argues that Westerners deliberately tried to build cities that differed radically from their eastern counterparts. In 1954, Walt Disney began building the world's first theme park, using Hollywood's movie-making techniques. The creators of Stanford Industrial Park were more hesitant in their approach to a conceptually organized environment, but by the mid-1960s the Park was the nation's prototypical "research park" and the intellectual downtown for the high-technology region that became Silicon Valley. In 1960, on the outskirts of Phoenix, Del E. Webb built Sun City, the largest, most influential retirement community in the United States. Another innovative cityscape arose from the 1962 Seattle World's Fair and provided a futuristic, somewhat fanciful vision of modern life. These four became "magic lands" that provided an antidote to the apparent chaos of their respective urban milieus. Exemplars of a new lifestyle, they are landmarks on the changing cultural landscape of postwar America.
Author : David Stephen Calonne
Publisher : Rutgers University Press
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2022-04-15
Category : Biography & Autobiography
ISBN : 9781978828728
The first book-length study of why the Beats were so fascinated by Mexico and how they represented its landscape, history, and mystical practices in their work, this volume examines such canonical figures as Kerouac, Burroughs, Ginsberg, Lamantia, McClure, and Ferlinghetti, as well as lesser-known female Beat writers like Margaret Randall, Bonnie Bremser, and Joanne Kyger.
Author : William H. Beezley
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 209 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-06-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781496206909
Featuring a new preface by the author, this brilliant and eminently readable cultural history looks at Mexican life during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, from 1876 to 1911. At that time the modernization that Mexico underwent produced a fierce struggle between the traditional and the new, exacerbating class antagonisms in the process. The noted historian William H. Beezley illuminates many facets of everyday Mexican life lying at the heart of this conflict and change, including sports, storytelling, health care, technology, and the traditional Easter?time Judas burnings that became a primary focus of strife during those years. This updated volume provides a teacher’s guide, available on the University of Nebraska Press website, offering a manual of internet links, additional readings, and practice experiences that can be used in the classroom or by anyone who wants to go beyond the chapters of this book. Download the discussion guide.
Author : Cheri Marie Anthony
Publisher : Xlibris Corporation
Page : 24 pages
File Size : 45,6 Mb
Release : 2014-04
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1493195247
Author : Eladio Cortes
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 815 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1992-11-24
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9780313368998
This volume features approximately 600 entries that represent the major writers, literary schools, and cultural movements in the history of Mexican literature. A collaborative effort by American, Mexican, and Hispanic scholars, the text contains bibliographical, biographical, and critical material--placing each work cited within its cultural and historical framework. Intended to enrich the English-speaking public's appreciation of the rich diversity of Mexican literature, works are selected on the basis of their contribution toward an understanding of this unique artistry. The dictionary contains entries keyed by author and works, the length of each entry determined by the relative significance of the writer or movement being discussed. Each biographical entry identifies the author's literary contribution by including facts about his or her life and works, a chronological list of works, a supplementary bibliography, and, when appropriate, critical notes. Authors are listed alphabetically and cross-referenced both within the text and the index to facilitate easy access to information. Selected bibliographical entries are also listed alphabetically by author and include both the original title and English translation, publisher, date and place of publication, and number of pages.
Author : Anna Marie Hager
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 588 pages
File Size : 46,8 Mb
Release : 1976
Category : History
ISBN : 0520030354
Author : Eric Zolov
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Page : 797 pages
File Size : 50,6 Mb
Release : 2015-08-26
Category : History
ISBN : 9781610690447
Going far beyond basic historical information, this two-volume work examines the deep roots of Mexican culture and their meaning to modern Mexico. In this book, readers will find rich, in-depth treatments by renowned as well as up-and-coming scholars on the most iconic people, places, social movements, and cultural manifestations—including food, dress, film, and music—that have given shape and meaning to modern Mexico and its people. Presenting authoritative information written by scholars in a format that is easily accessible to general audiences, this book serves as a useful and thorough reference tool for all readers. This work combines extensive historical treatment accompanied by illuminating and fresh analysis that will appeal to readers of all levels, from those just exploring the concept of "Mexico" to those already familiar with Mexico and Latin America. Each entry functions as a portal into Mexican history, culture, and politics, while also showing how cultural phenomena have transformed over the years and continue to resonate into today.
Author : John Quinn Olson
Publisher : Dust Devil Press
Page : 244 pages
File Size : 49,6 Mb
Release : 2007-09
Category : Fiction
ISBN : 9780982070321
Welcome to the adventures and misadventures from a quarter century of hang gliding and travel. Huck yourself off cliffs, soar into the Wild Blue, and land where no human has landed before, all from the comfort and safety of your easy chair. Visit exotic lands and foreign skies, experience the thrill of foot-launched human flight and never even risk your neck. Come along with a wild cast of characters, who fly like their lives depend upon it. Realize mankind's most ancient dream, FLY WITH THE BIRDS!
Author : Michele McArdle Stephens
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 221 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9780803288584
The Huichols (or Wixárika) of western Mexico are among the most resilient and iconic indigenous groups in Mexico today. In the Lands of Fire and Sun examines the Huichol Indians as they have struggled to maintain their independence over two centuries. From the days of the Aztec Empire, the history of west-central Mesoamerica has been one of isolation and a fiercely independent spirit, and one group that maintained its autonomy into the days of Spanish colonization was the Huichol tribe. Rather than assimilating into the Hispanic fold, as did so many other indigenous peoples, the Huichols sustained their distinct identity even as the Spanish Crown sought to integrate them. In confronting first the Spanish colonial government, then the Mexican state, the Huichols displayed resilience and cunning as they selectively adapted their culture, land, and society to the challenges of multiple new eras. By incorporating elements of archaeology, anthropology, cultural geography, and history, Michele McArdle Stephens fills the gaps in the historical documentation, teasing out the indigenous voices from travel accounts, Spanish legal sources, and European ethnographic reports. The result is a thorough examination of one of the most vibrant, visible societies in Latin America.
Author : Stacy B. Schaefer,Peter T. Furst
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 580 pages
File Size : 42,7 Mb
Release : 1996
Category : History
ISBN : 082631905X
The first substantial study of a Mexican Indian society that more than any other has preserved much of its ancient way of life and religion.
Author : Julia Leyda
Publisher : transcript Verlag
Page : 217 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-02-29
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783839434550
American Mobilities investigates representations of mobility - social, economic, geographic - in American film and literature during the Depression, WWII, and the early Cold War. With an emphasis on the dual meaning of "domestic," referring to both the family home and the nation, this study traces the important trope of mobility that runs through the "American" century. Juxtaposing canonical fiction with popular, and low-budget independent films with Classical Hollywood, Leyda brings the analytic tools of American cultural and literary studies to bear on an eclectic array of primary texts as she builds a case for the significance of mobility in the study of the United States.
Author : David Harmon,Allen D. Putney
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 53,8 Mb
Release : 2003
Category : Nature
ISBN : 0742527158
Parks are important economic vehicles, generating billions of dollars worldwide in tourism revenue. However, the reasons for that visitation are found in the non-material, non-economic values that parks offer to people: values that are cultural, therapeutic, scientific, spiritual, recreational, educational, and aesthetic/artistic. The Full Value of Parks is the first comprehensive analysis of these important, but intangible, values.