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Book Mexican Maze

Download or read book Mexican Maze written by Carleton Beals and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 382 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Here is a travel book into time as well as through strange valleys and along tropical coasts. Layer upon layer of centuries of culture are unwrapped, in leaves from a notebook of 15 years of war & revolution & peace.

Book Mexican Maze

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  • Author : Carleton Beals
  • Publisher : Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press
  • Release : 1971
  • ISBN :
  • Pages : 386 pages

Download or read book Mexican Maze written by Carleton Beals and published by Westport, Conn : Greenwood Press. This book was released on 1971 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican

Download or read book The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican written by Helen Delpar and published by University of Alabama Press. This book was released on 1992 with total page 289 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican traces the evolution of cultural relations between the United States and Mexico from 1920 to 1935.

Book Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity

Download or read book Cantinflas and the Chaos of Mexican Modernity written by Jeffrey M. Pilcher and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2001 with total page 284 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Why was Cantinflas, actor Mario Moreno's film persona, the most popular movie star in Mexican history? Was it because every Mexican - rich or poor, Creole or Indian, man or woman, young or old - could identify with him?

Book The Mexican Revolution

    Book Details:
  • Author : Alan Knight
  • Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
  • Release : 1990-01-01
  • ISBN : 9780803277724
  • Pages : 640 pages

Download or read book The Mexican Revolution written by Alan Knight and published by U of Nebraska Press. This book was released on 1990-01-01 with total page 640 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "v. 1. Porfirians, liberals, and peasants -- v. 2. Counter-revolution and reconstruction."

Book The Rebel Scribe

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  • Author : Christopher Neal
  • Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
  • Release : 2022-01-27
  • ISBN : 0761873112
  • Pages : 391 pages

Download or read book The Rebel Scribe written by Christopher Neal and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2022-01-27 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Carleton Beals was among America’s most distinctive foreign correspondents. His colorful, combatively critical reporting of U.S. intervention in Latin America had a fearless energy and authority that won him millions of readers. He interviewed the Nicaraguan rebel leader Sandino in the camp from which he fought thousands of U.S marines in 1928, covered two revolutions in Cuba (1933 and 1959), and interpreted the Mexican Revolution for American readers. Beals’s dispatches and features appeared regularly in the Nation, New Republic, Current History and the Progressive, and often in the New York Times. Time magazine called him “the best informed and the most awkward living writer on Latin America.” Forty books, including chronicles, political analysis and novels, drawn mostly from his travels and wide-ranging contacts in what he called “America South” made that characterization apt. But Beals was also an eyewitness reporter on Mussolini’s rise in Italy. He wrote on U.S. topics too, such as Louisiana’s Huey Long, and the environmental damage and rural migration in the 1930s caused by emerging agri-business in America’s South and West. Many of his books were best-sellers, their evidence-based assessments earning at least grudging respect even among those who took issue with his indictments of U.S. economic and government elites. At once biography and analytical history, The Rebel Scribe tells the story of a fiercely independent non-conformist. It probes Beals’s interactions with political leaders, democrats, demagogues, populists and revolutionaries, and reveals how his ability to immerse himself in their societies gave his accounts a palpable authenticity and, time has shown, a prescience that is almost prophetic. Christopher Neal’s layered narrative traces how Beals identified patterns of political behavior and concepts that later became fully-fledged schools of thought, such as the idea of a Third World, dependency theory, U.S. neo-imperialism, and aspects of critical theory. His story sheds light on the evolution of U.S. foreign policy and intervention, from Mexico and Nicaragua in the 1920s, to Cuba and Vietnam in the 1960s. It reveals the fraught trail that faced—and still faces—contrarian journalists who challenge conventional assumptions, while also showing how probing journalism drives change.

Book The Mexican Revolution

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  • Author : Douglas W. Richmond
  • Publisher : Texas A&M University Press
  • Release : 2013-06-07
  • ISBN : 1603448160
  • Pages : 266 pages

Download or read book The Mexican Revolution written by Douglas W. Richmond and published by Texas A&M University Press. This book was released on 2013-06-07 with total page 266 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1910 insurgent leaders crushed the Porfirian dictatorship, but in the years that followed fought among themselves, until a nationalist consensus produced the 1917 Constitution. This in turn provided the basis for a reform agenda that transformed Mexico in the modern era. The civil war and the reforms that followed receive new and insightful attention in this book. These essays, the result of the 45th annual Walter Prescott Webb Memorial Lectures, presented by the University of Texas at Arlington in March 2010, commemorate the centennial of the outbreak of the revolution. A potent mix of factors—including the concentration of wealth in the hands of a few thousand hacienda owners, rancheros, and foreign capitalists; the ideological conflict between the Diaz government and the dissident regional reformers; and the grinding poverty afflicting the majority of the nation’s eleven million industrial and rural laborers—provided the volatile fuel that produced the first major political and social revolution of the twentieth century. The conflagration soon swept across the Rio Grande; indeed, The Mexican Revolution shows clearly that the struggle in Mexico had tremendous implications for the American Southwest. During the years of revolution, hundreds of thousands of Mexican citizens crossed the border into the United States. As a result, the region experienced waves of ethnically motivated violence, economic tensions, and the mass expulsions of Mexicans and US citizens of Mexican descent.

Book Mexico Otherwise

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  • Author : Jürgen Buchenau
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2005
  • ISBN : 9780826323132
  • Pages : 308 pages

Download or read book Mexico Otherwise written by Jürgen Buchenau and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2005 with total page 308 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A diverse collection of observations on nineteenth- and twentieth-century Mexico by non-Mexican authors.

Book Land and Society in Colonial Mexico

Download or read book Land and Society in Colonial Mexico written by Francois Chevalier and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 2023-11-10 with total page 467 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land and Society in Colonial Mexico

Download or read book Land and Society in Colonial Mexico written by and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on with total page 364 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book Land and Society in Colonial Mexico

Download or read book Land and Society in Colonial Mexico written by François Chevalier and published by Univ of California Press. This book was released on 1963 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book The Statesman s Year Book

Download or read book The Statesman s Year Book written by M. Epstein and published by Springer. This book was released on 2016-12-28 with total page 1501 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.

Book Mexican Maze  With Illus  by Diego Rivera

Download or read book Mexican Maze With Illus by Diego Rivera written by Carleton Beals and published by . This book was released on 1931 with total page 369 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Book East Los Angeles

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  • Author : Richardo Romo
  • Publisher : University of Texas Press
  • Release : 2010-07-05
  • ISBN : 0292787715
  • Pages : 223 pages

Download or read book East Los Angeles written by Richardo Romo and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-07-05 with total page 223 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This is the story of the largest Mexican-American community in the United States, the city within a city known as "East Los Angeles." How did this barrio of over one million men and women—occupying an area greater than Manhattan or Washington D.C.—come to be? Although promoted early in this century as a workers' paradise, Los Angeles fared poorly in attracting European immigrants and American blue-collar workers. Wages were low, and these workers were understandably reluctant to come to a city which was also troubled by labor strife. Mexicans made up the difference, arriving in the city in massive numbers. Who these Mexicans were and the conditions that caused them to leave their own country are revealed in East Los Angeles. The author examines how they adjusted to life in one of the fastest-growing cities in the United States, how they fared in this country's labor market, and the problems of segregation and prejudice they confronted. Ricardo Romo is associate professor of history at the University of Texas at Austin.

Book Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico

Download or read book Katherine Anne Porter and Mexico written by Thomas F. Walsh and published by Univ of TX + ORM. This book was released on 2014-10-14 with total page 504 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1920, an unknown journalist named Katherine Anne Porter first sojourned in Mexico. When she left her "familiar country" for the last time in 1931, she was the celebrated author of Flowering Judas and Other Stories and had accumulated a wealth of experiences and impressions that would inspire numerous short stories, essays, and reviews, as well as the opening section of her only novel, Ship of Fools. In this perceptive study of Porter's Mexican experiences, Thomas Walsh traces the important connections between those events and her literary works. Separating fact from the fictions that Porter constantly created about her life, he follows the active role that she played in Mexican political and intellectual life—even to the discovery of a plot to overthrow the Mexican government, which eventually figured in Flowering Judas. Most important, Walsh discerns how the great swings between depression and elation that characterized Porter's emotional life influenced her alternating visions of Mexico. In such works as "Xochimilco," Porter saw Mexico as an earthly Eden where hopes for a better society could be realized, but in other stories, including "The Fiesta of Guadalupe," she depicts Mexico as a place of hopeless oppression for the native peoples. Mexico, Porter once said, gave her back her Texas past. Given the unhappiness of that past, her feelings toward Mexico would always be ambivalent, but her Mexican experiences influenced all her subsequent works to some degree, even those pieces not specifically Mexican in setting. Walsh's study, then, is an essential key for anyone seeking greater understanding of the life or works of Katherine Anne Porter.

Book Casa Ma  ana

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  • Author : Susan Danly
  • Publisher : UNM Press
  • Release : 2002
  • ISBN : 9780826328052
  • Pages : 224 pages

Download or read book Casa Ma ana written by Susan Danly and published by UNM Press. This book was released on 2002 with total page 224 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Provides a detailed look at the political and artistic climate in Mexican-American relations through an examination of the folk art collection amassed by Dwight and Elizabeth Morrow when he was U.S. ambassador to Mexico in the late 1920s.