This Insight Guide is a lavishly illustrated inspirational travel guide to Mexico and a beautiful souvenir of your trip. Perfect for travellers looking for a deeper dive into the destination's history and culture, it's ideal to inspire and help you plan your travels. With its great selection of places to see and colourful magazine-style layout, ......
Practical travel guide to Mexico with a free eBook featuring points-of-interest structured lists of all sights and off-the-beaten-track treasures, with detailed colour-coded maps, practical details about what to see and to do in Mexico, how to get there and around, pre-departure information, as well as top time-saving tips, like a visual list of ......
The forgotten cafe where Fidel Castro and Che Guevara used to meet, a tribute to the city's ghosts, a mammoth in the metro, a cave transformed into a shrine, an underground parking lot with mosaics dating from 1930, a Baroque altarpiece made from papier mache, a village based on the principles of Thomas More's Utopia, secret masterpieces of ......
By critically comparing Mary Magdalene's and La Malinche's histories of interpretation, Jennifer Vija Pietz challenges these women's popular images and reevaluates the use of past lives to address current concerns. She also posits strategies for developing historically plausible and ethically responsible interpretations of past people.
The Sensationalized Crimes of Mexico's First Female Serial Killer
The surprising true story of Mexico's hunt, arrest, and conviction of its first female serial killer who was responsible for the ghastly deaths of 40 elderly women in a fascinating analysis of what serial killing--often considered killing for the pleasure of killing--represents to us.nts to us.
Drug Trafficking in Mexico and the United States examines drug trafficking from an interdisciplinary and progressive perspective. Gabriel Ferreyra analyzes its origins, apogee, cultural globalization, and destructive effects in Mexico.
Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938
Caritina Pina Montalvo personified the vital role played by Mexican women in the anarcho-syndicalist movement. Sonia Hernandez tells the story of how Pina and other Mexicanas in the Gulf of Mexico region fought for labor rights both locally and abroad in service to the anarchist ideal of a worldwide community of workers. An international labor ......
The U.S. detention center at Guantanamo Bay has become the symbol of an unprecedented detention system of global reach and immense power. Since the 9/11 attacks, the news has on an almost daily basis headlined stories of prisoners held indefinitely at Guantanamo without charge or trial, many of whom have been interrogated in violation of ......
Crime and security expert Vanda Felbab-Brown conducted more than eight years of fieldwork across Mexico analysing policy interventions in key crime and violence hotspots, as well as in control cases. The result is Narco Noir: Mexico's Cartels, Cops, and Corruption, an extensive and unique set of organised crime case studies.
During the twentieth century, many Americans expressed concerns about the security surrounding the U.S.-Mexican border due to the lack of progress in achieving meaningful and effective immigration regulation and an inability to control growing drug trafficking. Despite publicly and privately striving for cooperation on these issues, Mexican and ......
Tracing the historical development of Mexico from the pre-Hispanic period to the present, the Historical Dictionary of Mexico, Third Edition, is an excellent resource for students, teachers, researchers, and the general public. This reference work includes a detailed chronology, an introduction surveying the country's history, and an extensive ......
In this engaging book, Eric Van Young traces the political, economic, and social development of Mexico through the crucial one hundred years of its remarkable transition from a relatively prosperous Spanish colony to a violently unstable republic marked by economic stagnation, political confrontation, and burgeoning efforts at modernization. ......
New Directions in Transnational Mexican History: Mexico On the World Stage examines foreign immigration to Mexico as and the significance of Mexican transnationalism and pluriculturalism. Contributors explore the roles of entrepreneurs, consuls, doctors, railroad workers, cowboys, divas, puppeteers, missionaries, and women soccer players.
The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas
Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period it was very much on the brink of failure. In ......
In this engaging work, 2002 Bolton-Jonhson Prize Winner Eric Van Young captures the crucial hundred years of Mexico's remarkable transition from a Spanish colony to a modernized, independent nation.
Engendering Anarchism in the Mexican Borderlands, 1900-1938
Caritina Pina Montalvo personified the vital role played by Mexican women in the anarcho-syndicalist movement. Sonia Hernandez tells the story of how Pina and other Mexicanas in the Gulf of Mexico region fought for labor rights both locally and abroad in service to the anarchist ideal of a worldwide community of workers. An international labor ......
The Epidemic of 1576 and the Birth of Christianity in the Americas
Tells the story of the founding of American Christianity against the backdrop of devastating disease, and of the Indigenous survivors who kept the nascent faith alive Many scholars have come to think of the European Christian mission to the Americas as an inevitable success. But in its early period it was very much on the brink of failure. In ......
Examines how the US-Mexico border is seen through visual codes of surveillance When Donald Trump promised to "build a wall" on the U.S.-Mexico border, both supporters and opponents visualized a snaking barrier of concrete cleaving through nearly two thousand miles of arid desert. Though only 4 percent of the US population lives in proximity to ......
