For the last nine years, the city of Ciudad Juarez in northern Mexico has been the centre of an ongoing phenomenon of female homicides. As of February 2005 more than 370 bodies have been recovered, with over 400 women still missing, according to Amnesty International. The BBC News reported in November 2005 that 28 women had been murdered so far ...
Through the eyes of an American who has become an insider, this work takes a panoramic view of contemporary Mexico City. Lida expertly captures the life of a city defined by pleasure and anger, joy and tragedy, and in limbo between the developed and developing worlds. Illustrated.
Challenges the traditional view of castas (members of the caste system created by Spanish overlords) as alienated and dominated by a desire to improve their status. This text argues that instead, social control by the Spanish rested on patron-client networks.
"In three superbly crafted and incisive essays, William H. Beezley examines the leisure culture of high society and the traditional culture of 'everyday Mexicans' and their interactions and clash...Witty and entertaining but also thought-provoking." - "American Historical Review". What the critics said when Judas at the Jockey Club first appeared ...
A vibrant story of female friendship and midlife sexual awakening from the acclaimed author of "The Great Man, Trouble" is a funny, moving examination of the battle between the need for connection and the quest for freedom that every modern woman must fight.
Monroy's memorable debut novel is an eye-opening, coming-of-age story about identity, belonging, and first love. In a setting rife with sex, drugs, and political corruption, it is also a revealing look at elite Mexican society and its freedoms and excesses.
Hector Belascoaran Shayne is back and looking for a multi-aliased gun runner who is being tracked by a CIA-linked reporter, supposedly because he caused the suicide of somebody's sister. Confusing? Hector thinks so, but nevertheless, the intrepid Mexico City detective tracks the man called Estrella from Acapulco to Tijuana, through murderous ...
From an award-winning short-fiction writer comes a debut novel that tosses readers into a near-future world, where an outbreak of plague threatens not only a precious peace negotiation but the entire continents of North and South America.
This romantic, innovative, and wildly comic "New York Times" bestseller by the author of "Like Water for Chocolate" tells a cosmic love story, a Mexican "Midsummer Night's Dream" that stretches from the fall of Montezuma's Mexico to the 23rd century. Includes eight sections of full-color illustrations.
The finest museum of archaeology and anthropology in the Western hemisphere, the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City owns the world's most impressive collection of pre-Columbian Mexican art, including sculpture, painting, pottery, and other works. Since it was founded in 1964, it has displayed and studied the fascinating art, artifacts, ...
From the ancient geological rumblings that formed the city's unique setting to the recent tremors that devastated the city in 1985, the capital's complex story unfolds. The countless individuals, both famous and unknown, who shaped Mexico' history come alive . . . they prosper, decline, and rise again before being extinguished by political and ...
In 1847, General Winfield Scott boldly led a small but undaunted army from the Mexican coast all the way to the Hall of Montezuma, routing Mexican forces at every turn while pacifying the countryside. Scott's military campaign - America's first ever in a foreign country - helped pave the way for victory in the wider war against Mexico and also ...
hangout with howler monkeys near a Mayan ruin, scale the Pico de Orizaba (Mexico's tallest mountain), visit mummies on Day of the Dead, or nap in a Yucatecan hamock - this guide has it all - ventures beyond tacos to discover the best of Mexican cuisine - special section on artesanias (handicrafts) - 161 detailed maps for discovering Mayan temples, ...
In many areas of the world, environmental degradation in and around human settlements is undermining prospects for both socioeconomic justice and ecological sustainability. To explore the issues involved in this worldwide problem, the author focuses on a dramatic instance of conflict that grew out of the unauthorized penetration of human ...
The Aztecs have fascinated and horrified Westerners for centuries. After Cortes' extraordinary conquest of the New World's most powerful civilization in 1521, the Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan, was levelled and its Great Temple demolished. Soon even the location of the old cult centre was lost - until 1978, when tunnelling for Mexico City's subway ...
"Workers, Neighbors, and Citizens" examines the mobilization of workers and the urban poor in Mexico City from the eve of the 1910 revolution through the early 1920s, producing for the first time a nuanced illumination of groups that have long been discounted by historians. John Lear addresses a basic paradox: During one of the great social ...
This handbook covers historical sites, such as convents, churches, government palaces, private mansions, museums, and Aztec ruins, and reviews nightlife for all tastes: salsa dancing, mariachis and tequila, hipster clubs, upscale bars and lounges, or classic old-time cantinas and pulquerias. From exploring the myriad of historical sites packed ...
Art Encounters is a wonderful new fiction series designed to introduce young readers to great painters. This series brings famous works of art to life through thrilling and evocative stories that reflect the individual paintings featured, not unlike The Girl with a Pearl Earring. Each book in the series will focus on the style, techniques, and ...
As economic crises struck the Third World in the 1970 s and 1980 s, large segments of the population turned to the informal economy to survive. Though this phenomenon has previously been analyzed from a strictly economic point of view, this book looks at street vending in the largest city in the world, Mexico City, as a political process. ...
In 1978, workmen in downtown Mexico City accidentally discovered a beautifully preserved monolithic sculpture at the foot of the main temple of the Aztecs. This important find led to a massive excavation that continues today under the direction of archaeologist Eduardo Matos Moctezuma. The great temple, now known as the Templo Mayor of ...
This pioneering study confronts three main questions about this era in Mexico City: Were women's roles as narrow and unimportant as has been assumed? To what extent were women dominated by men? Can significant differences be found between younger and older women, married and single, upper class and lower class?
In 1774 Mexico City leaders created the Mexico City Poor House - the centrepiece of a bold experiment intended to eliminate poverty and impose a new work ethic on former beggars by establishing a forcible internment policy for some and putting others to work. In 'Containing the Poor", Silvia Marina Arrom tells the saga of this ill-fated plan, ...
Emerging from decades of turmoil, late nineteenth-century Mexico City was a capital in transition. Yet as the city and its republic embraced technological and social change, it still faced perceptions of widespread disorder. Accordingly, the Porfirian government relied on an elite group of government officials, prominent citizens, politicians, ...
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