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The Murals of Cacaxtla: The Power of Painting in Ancient Central MexicoPresenting the first comprehensive art historical study of some magnificent Mesoamerican murals, this book demonstrates how generations of ancient Mexican artists, patrons, and audiences created a powerful statement of communal identity that still captures the imagination. Honorable Mention, ALAA Book Award, Association for Latin...
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Between Art and Artifact: Archaeological Replicas and Cultural Production in Oaxaca, MexicoOaxaca is internationally renowned for its marketplaces and archaeological sites where tourists can buy inexpensive folk art, including replicas of archaeological treasures. Archaeologists, art historians, and museum professionals sometimes discredit this trade in "fakes" that occasionally make their way to the auction block as...
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The Monterrey Elite and the Mexican State, 1880-1940After the Revolution of 1910, a powerful group of Monterrey businessmen led by the Garza-Sada family emerged as a key voice of the Mexican private sector. The Monterrey Elite and The Mexican State is the first major historical study of the Grupo Monterrey, the...
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The Fight to Save Juárez: Life in the Heart of Mexico's Drug WarThe city of Juárez is ground zero for the drug war that is raging across Mexico and has claimed close to 60,000 lives since 2007. Almost a quarter of the federal forces that former President Felipe Calderón deployed in the war were sent to...
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The City of Mexico in the Age of DíazMexico City assumed its current character around the turn of the twentieth century, during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz (1876-1911). In those years, wealthy Mexicans moved away from the Zócalo, the city's traditional center, to western suburbs where they sought to imitate European and...
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Aztecs, Moors, and Christians: Festivals of Reconquest in Mexico and SpainIn villages and towns across Spain and its former New World colonies, local performers stage mock battles between Spanish Christians and Moors or Aztecs that range from brief sword dances to massive street theatre lasting several days. The performances officially celebrate the triumph of...
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Moctezuma's Children: Aztec Royalty Under Spanish Rule, 1520-1700Though the Aztec Empire fell to Spain in 1521, three principal heirs of the last emperor, Moctezuma II, survived the conquest and were later acknowledged by the Spanish victors as reyes naturales (natural kings or monarchs) who possessed certain inalienable rights as Indian royalty....
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Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution: Cinema and the ArchiveKatherine Singer Kovács Book Award, Society for Cinema and Media Studies, 2011 With a cast ranging from Pancho Villa to Dolores del Río and Tina Modotti, Constructing the Image of the Mexican Revolution demonstrates the crucial role played by Mexican and foreign visual artists...
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Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico: From the Aztecs to IndependenceIn Memory, Myth, and Time in Mexico, noted Mexican scholar Enrique Florescano's Memoria mexicana becomes available for the first time in English. A collection of essays tracing the many memories of the past created by different individuals and groups in Mexico, the book addresses...
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The Teotihuacan Trinity: The Sociopolitical Structure of an Ancient Mesoamerican CityNortheast of modern-day Mexico City stand the remnants of one of the world's largest preindustrial cities, Teotihuacan. Monumental in scale, Teotihuacan is organized along a three-mile-long thoroughfare, the Avenue of the Dead, that leads up to the massive Pyramid of the Moon. Lining the...
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In the Palace of Nezahualcoyotl: Painting Manuscripts, Writing the Pre-Hispanic Past in Early Colonial Period Tetzcoco, MexicoAround 1542, descendants of the Aztec rulers of Mexico created accounts of the pre-Hispanic history of the city of Tetzcoco, Mexico, one of the imperial capitals of the Aztec Empire. Painted in iconic script ("picture writing"), the Codex Xolotl, the Quinatzin Map, and the...
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Palace Politics: How the Ruling Party Brought Crisis to MexicoBringing rare interviews and meticulous research to the cloaked world of Mexican politics in the mid-twentieth century, Palace Politics provides a captivating look at the authoritarian Mexican state--one of the longest-lived regimes of its kind in recent history--as well as the origins of political...
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The Maya and Teotihuacan: Reinterpreting Early Classic InteractionThe contributors to this volume present extensive new evidence from archaeology, iconography, and epigraphy to offer a more nuanced understanding of the interaction between the Early Classic Maya and Teotihuacan. Winner, Choice Outstanding Academic Book, 2005Since the 1930s, archaeologists have uncovered startling evidence of...
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Border Witness: Reimagining the Us-Mexico Borderlands Through FilmWhat a century of border films teaches about the real and imagined worlds of the US-Mexico borderlands--and how this understanding helps build better relations across boundaries. Border Witness is an account of cultural collision and fusion between Mexico and the United States, as seen...
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Mexican Messiah: Andrés Manuel López ObradorThe emergence of Latin American firebrands who champion the cause of the impoverished and rail against the evils of neoliberalism and Yankee imperialism--Hugo Ch vez in Venezuela, Evo Morales in Bolivia, N stor Kirchner in Argentina, Andr s Manuel L pez Obrador in Mexico--has...
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Roots of BrazilSérgio Buarque de Holanda's Roots of Brazil is one of the iconic books on Brazilian history, society, and culture. Originally published in 1936, it appears here for the first time in an English language translation with a foreword, "Why Read Roots of Brazil Today?"...
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DollybirdHousekeeper-or whore?Twenty-year-old Moira, the daughter of a Newfoundland doctor, dreams of becoming a doctor herself; but when she becomes pregnant out of wedlock, she is banished to the bleak landscape of southern Saskatchewan in 1906, where she must come to terms with her predicament,...
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Cortney Christina Rae's First Day of SchoolYou cannot be anything you want to be...until you accept all that you already are Cortney Christina Rae is a Mohawk girl who is scared to attend her first day of school as she is afraid she will get picked on for her dark...
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Unforgettable Canada: 125 DestinationsFeaturing 10 new destinations. This beautifully illustrated guide features 125 of Canada's most remarkable destinations. Scattered across every province and territory, some represent dream excursions to the far reaches of the land, while others are closer to your hometown than you would have imagined....
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Waterfalls of Ontario: Revised and Expanded Featuring Over 125 WaterfallsPraise for previous editions: A very practical guidebook to exploring 80 different provincial waterfalls... A coffee table book on one hand, a guidebook on the other... nicely balanced, organized and provocative. --Toronto Star It's rare to have a book that's so user friendly, packed...
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