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The Mexico reader : history, culture, politics /
"The Mexico Reader is a vivid and comprehensive guide to muchos Méxicos-the many varied histories and cultures of Mexico. Unparalleled in scope, it covers pre-Columbian times to the present, from the extraordinary power and influence of the Roman Catholic Church to Mexico's uneven postrev...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Durham :
Duke University Press,
2022.
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| Edición: | Second edition, revised and updated. |
| Colección: | Latin America readers.
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| Temas: | |
| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- I. The search for "Lo Mexicano". The Mexican character / Joel Poinsett
- The cosmic race / José Vasconcelos
- The sons of La Malinche / Octavio Paz
- The problem of national culture / Guillermo Bonfil Batalla
- How to tame a wild tongue / Gloria Anzaldúa
- Mexico City, 1992 / Alma Guillermoprieto
- Two Ranchera songs / José Alfredo Jiménez and Cuco Sánchez
- II. Ancient civilizations. The origins of the Aztec / Anonymous
- The Feast of the Flaying of Men / Inga Clendinnen
- The Totocalli (Motecuhzoma's 'Zoo') / Andrés Bustamante Agudelo and Israel Elizalde Méndez
- The meaning of maize for the Maya / J. Eric Thompson
- Omens foretelling the conquest / Anonymous
- III. Conquest and colony. The Spaniards' entry into Tenochtitlán / Bernal Díaz del Castillo and Hernán Cortés
- Cortés and Montezuma / J.H. Elliott
- The Battles of Tenochtitlán and Tlatelolco / Anonymous
- The spiritual conquest / Fray Jerónimo de Mendieta
- Why the Indians are dying / Alonso de Zorita
- A Baroque Archbishop-Viceroy / Irving Leonard
- On men's hypocrisy / Sor Juana
- Whites, Negros, castes / Alexander von Humboldt
- The itching parrot, the priest, and the subdelegate / José Joaquín Fernández de Lizardi
- IV. Trials of the young Republic. The siege of Guanajuato / Lucas Alamán
- Sentiments of the nation / José María Morelos
- Plan of Iguala / Agustín de Iturbide
- Women and war in Mexico / Frances Calderón de la Barca
- The glorious revolution of 1844 / Guillermo Prieto
- Décimas dedicated to Santa Anna's leg / Anonymous
- A conservative profession of faith / The editors of El Tiempo
- Considerations relating to the political and social situation / Mariano Otero
- Liberals and the land / Luis González y González
- Standard plots and rural resistance / Raymond B. Craib
- Offer of the crown to Maximilian / Junta of Conservative Notables
- A letter from Mexico / Empress Carlotta
- The triumph of the Republic / Benito Juárez
- Porfirio Díaz visits Yucatán / Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost
- Scenes from a lumber camp / B. Traven
- President Díaz, hero of the Americas / James Creelman
- Gift of the skeletons / Anonymous
- V. Revolution. Land and liberty / Ricardo Flores Magón
- Plan of Ayala / Emiliano Zapata
- The restoration of the Ejido / Luis Cabrera
- Zapatistas in the palace / Martín Luis Guzmán
- Mexico has been turned into a hell / William O. Jenkins
- Pancho Villa / John Reed
- La punitiva / Anonymous
- Pedro Martínez / Oscar Lewis
- Amelio Robles's gender battles in the Zapatista Army / Gabriela Cano
- Juan the Chamula / Ricardo Pozas
- The Constitution of 1917 : Articles 27 and 123
- An agrarian encounter / Rosalie Evans
- Ode to Cuauhtémoc / Carlos Pellicer
- The socialist ABC's / Anonymous
- The ballad of Valentín de la Sierra / Anonymous
- Mexico must become a nation of institutions and laws / Plutarco Elías Calles
- The formation of the single-party state / Carlos Fuentes
- The rough and tumble career of Pedro Crespo / Gilbert M. Joseph and Allen Wells
- A convention in Zacapu / Salvador Lemus Fernández
- The agrarian reform in La Laguna / Fernando Benítez
- The oil expropriation / Josephus Daniels
- VI. The perils of modernity.They gave us the land / Juan Rulfo
- Mexico's crisis / Daniel Cosío Villegas
- Struggles of a campesino leader / Rubén Jaramillo
- Art and corruption / David Alfaro Siqueiros
- The two faces of Acapulco during the Golden Age / Andrew Sackett
- The dark deeds of "El Negro" Durazo / José González G
- The sinking city / Joel Simon
- Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl / Roberto Vallarino
- Roma exposes Mexico's darkest secrets / Marcela García
- Modesta Gómez / Rosario Castellanos
- La Costa Chica and the struggles of Mexico's "third root" / Gonzalo Aguirre Beltran
- Afro-Mexican militancy on the Costa Chica
- VII. From the ruins. The student movement of 1968 / Elena Poniatowska
- El Santo's strange career / Anne Rubenstein
- After the earthquake / Victims' Coordinating Council
- Letters to Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas / Anonymous
- Identity hour / Carlos Monsiváis
- The political manifesto of the COCEI of Juchitan, Oaxaca / The COCEI
- Women of Juchitán / Jeffrey W. Rubin
- EZLN demands at the dialogue table / Zapatista Army of National Liberation
- A Tzotzil chronicle / Marián Peres Tsu
- Debtors' revenge / Heather Williams
- VIII. The border and beyond. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
- Plan of San Diego / Anonymous
- The "wetback invasion" / Timothy J. Henderson
- The high cost of deportation / Julia Preston
- A Honduran teenager's odyssey across borders / Sonia Nazario
- Two poems about immigrant life / Pat Mora and Gina Valdés
- The Maquiladora workers of Juárez find their voice / David Bacon
- Dompe days / Luis Alberto Urrea
- Two songs about drug smuggling / Paulino Vargas and Chalino Sánchez
- "We are more American" / Enrique Valencia
- IX. From the perfect dictatorship to an imperfect democracy. Mexicans would not be bought, coerced / Wayne A. Cornelius
- Assessing NAFTA : before and after / Mark Weisbrot and Vicente Fox
- Ayotzinapa : a father's testimony / John Gibler
- The narco who died twice / Ioan Grillo
- The promise and peril of López Obrador / Denise Dresser
- AMLO on corruption / Andrés Manuel López Obrador
- Traditional medicine in modern Mexico and the challenge of COVID-19 / Gabriela Soto
- Laveaga and the Nich Ixim Midwives Movement
- Should I die abroad, bring me back to Mexico / Jorge Ramos.