History - Latin America - Mexico

"Mexico's history is a mixture of conquest and plunder, violence and brutality, fabulous civilizations, and spectacular cultural achievements. A fascinating story."--Christian Science Monitor There have been many Mexicos: the country of varied terrain, of Amerindian heritage, of the Spanish Conquest, of the Revolution, and...

"This deeply reflective account is touching and candid." - BooklistStylistically reminiscent of Marjane Satrapi's Persepolis, this is a poignant, deeply personal graphic memoir that turns tragedy into a powerful journey of memory and healing. On September 2, 1998, Swissair Flight 111 departed John F....

Two of the world's leading scholars of the Aztec language and culture have translated Sahagún's monumental and encyclopedic study of native life in Mexico at the time of the Spanish Conquest. This immense undertaking is the first complete translation into any language of Sahagún's...

A New York Times bestseller! "Lively and absorbing. . ." -- The New York Times Book Review "Engrossing." --Wall Street Journal "Entertaining and well-researched . . . " --Houston Chronicle Three noted Texan writers combine forces to tell the real story of the Alamo,...

"Amigos, amigas, les presento el primero, referente a la grandeza cultural de México" Pretendo reivindicar con este libro la vigencia del México profundo y sus civilizaciones originales, sometidas y negadas [...], pues considero una ingratitud no reconocer que, debido a esas raíces y enseñanzas,...

Finalist for the 2020 National Book Critics' Circle Award for Criticism By one of Mexico's greatest contemporary writers, this investigation into state violence and mourning gives voice to the political experience of collective pain. Grieving is a hybrid collection of short crónicas, journalism, and...

Isabel Revuelta Poo cuenta la historia de México desde la Conquista hasta el periodo posrevolucionario a través de los ojos de diez mujeres. CON UNA MINUCIOSA INVESTIGACIÓN, ISABEL CONSPIRA PARA ENTREGAR A LOS LECTORES UNA VISIÓN DE LA HISTORIA FEMENINA QUE NO ES COMPLACIENTE...

Sumérjase en el corazón de la vibrante historia de México con Historia de México! Este libro es su pasaporte para comprender las fuerzas que han dado forma a la fascinante nación de México. Desde los albores de las civilizaciones hasta los retos de la...

At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city. Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of...

A riveting, kaleidoscopic portrait of the American compulsion toward cruelty and our power to subvert it from an award-winning contributor to The Guardian and The New York Times. In How to Look Away, Daniel Peña explores how fringe elements of his Texas childhood--AM radio,...

In the mid-1930s the amateur French ethnographer and filmmaker Bernard de Colmont ventured into the mountainous state of Chiapas to study the Lacandón people and broadcast their way of life to a curious European public. Considered a "lost tribe," the Lacandón were thought to...

A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the Year "Grindle's passionate book, including extensive research in Mexico, will ensure that [Zelia Nuttall] is never forgotten." --British Museum Magazine "[A] beautifully crafted biography." --Foreign Affairs "What a woman! And...

En esta primera parte de sus memorias, Ulysses S. Grant relata su experiencia como joven teniente en la guerra entre México y Estados Unidos (1846-1848), desde su formación en West Point hasta la ocupación de la Ciudad de México.Con sobriedad y una sorprendente franqueza,...

El mar de sangre en México es generado por un río de arsenales estadounidenses. Cada año, entre 72,000 y 258,000 armas cruzan la frontera hacia nuestro país. La violencia vino del Norte revela el factor decisivo detrás de la catástrofe que desde 2007 padece...

Hernán Cortés's Cartas de Relacíon, written over a seven-year period to Charles V of Spain, provide an extraordinary narrative account of the conquest of Mexico from the founding of the coastal town of Veracruz until Cortés's journey to Honduras in 1525. Pagden's English translation...

An illustrated historic and cultural dive into the world of Mexico's most beloved sport, sure to please fans In this handsome bilingual book, the best Mexican specialists analyze all facets of the lucha libre phenomenon: the history and roots of the sport, the most...

Cuando Leopoldo, Juan Miguel y Pedro me hicieron el honor de invitarme a redactar el presente prÃ3logo, aceptÃ(c) entusiasmado porque en MÃ(c)xico requerimos de cientos de Leopoldos, Juan Migueles y Pedros que lleven a cabo trabajos monumentales de divulgaciÃ3n como el que actualmente tienen...

México esencial - Volumen 1 propone una mirada clara y accesible al territorio, la cultura y las tensiones históricas que han dado forma a México.Más que una cronología tradicional, el libro explora las fuerzas geográficas, culturales y sociales que desde muy temprano moldearon la...

This translation of a major work in Mexican anthropology argues that Mesoamerican civilization is an ongoing and undeniable force in contemporary Mexican life.For Guillermo Bonfil Batalla, the remaining Indian communities, the "de-Indianized" rural mestizo communities, and vast sectors of the poor urban population constitute...

From acclaimed and prize-winning historian Paul Gillingham, a rich and vibrant history of one of the world's most diverse, politically ground-breaking, and influential of countriesAt the beginning of his masterful work of scholarship and narration, Paul Gillingham writes, from its outset "Mexico was more...