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Serie: Latin american silhouettes
GebondenEngels9781442241213
20-4-2017
This compelling reader collects a rich array of documents that show how Mexicans viewed their history and culture since independence. Offering a wide variety of materials—texts, visuals, videos, and sounds— that can be tailored to the needs of individual instructors, these sources will ? Meer
PaperbackEngels9781442241220
20-4-2017
This compelling reader collects a rich array of documents that show how Mexicans viewed their history and culture since independence. Offering a wide variety of materials—texts, visuals, videos, and sounds— that can be tailored to the needs of individual instructors, these sources will ? Meer
PaperbackEngels9780742556027
20-8-2007
Investigates the roots of the Mexican Independence era from a variety of perspectives. This volume includes essays that link the pre-1810 late Bourbon period to the War of Independence (18101821), analyze many crucial aspects of the decade of conflict, and illustrate the continuities with the first years of the independent Mexican nation. Meer
GebondenEngels9780742554207
11-9-2008
Considers the physical changes in Mexico City's built environment, using them as a means to evaluate the extent and direction of regime consolidation of successive governments from 1920 to 1940. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780742537576
10-3-2006
Traces Brazil's singular character, exploring both the remarkable richness and cohesion of the national culture, and the contradictions and tensions that have developed over time. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780842026284
1-3-1998
The mere notion of examining local elections in Latin America would have produced a puzzled look and a simple question: Why? Meer
PaperbackEngels9780842026345
1-8-1998
The nineteenth century was a period of peak popularity for travel to Latin America, where political independence was accompanied by loosened travel restrictions. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780842026499
1-6-1997
Shows the reader the opposition and difficulties undocumented immigrants face in a nation that at first beckons them with freedom, then rejects them with unwelcoming borders and restrictive laws. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780842026581
1-3-1998
A travel diary with descriptions of Cuba that provide a firsthand view of the island's history. Meer
GebondenEngels9780842026819
1-11-1999
Mexican films have received high acclaim and impressive box-office returns. Moreover, Mexico has an advanced movie industry in the Spanish-speaking world, and its impact on Mexican culture and society cannot be overstated. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780842026826
1-11-1999
Mexican films have received high acclaim and impressive box-office returns. Moreover, Mexico has an advanced movie industry in the Spanish-speaking world, and its impact on Mexican culture and society cannot be overstated. Meer
GebondenEngels9780842028387
1-11-1999
Examines the largest foreign colony in Mexico during the reign of Porfirio Diaz, 1876-1911. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780842028462
1-5-2002
As the elder daughter of an emperor whose wife had presented him with no sons, Isabel stood to inherit the monarchy of Brazil with the passing of Dom Pedro II. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780842028707
1-3-2001
Offers students with an understanding of the crisis in Colombia. This book focuses on the 1990s, a decade that witnessed a strengthening of the guerrilla insurgency in the Americas. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780742553569
1-6-2006
Explores 150 years of Mexico's economic and rural development, a period when one of history's great empires was trying to extract more resources from its most important colony, and when an arguably capitalist economy was both expanding and taking deeper root. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780842027953
1-11-2000
Attention to Mexico's history after 1940 stands in the shadow of the country's epic revolution of 1910ETH1923, and historians and scholars tend to bring their focus on Mexican history to a close with the end of the Lzaro Crdenas presidency in 1940. Meer
PaperbackEngels9780842028981
1-5-2001
The figure of Juan Manual de Rosas dominates the history of Argentina in the first half of the nineteenth century. This edition of the author's 1981 book, is shortened for classroom use. Meer