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Pistoleros and Popular Movements
The Politics of State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca
Häftad, 2009
458 kr
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The postrevolutionary reconstruction of the Mexican government did not easily or immediately reach all corners of the country. At every level, political intermediaries negotiated, resisted, appropriated, or ignored the dictates of the central government. National policy reverberated through …
Mexicans in Revolution, 1910-1946
An Introduction
Av William H. Beezley, Colin M. MacLachlan
Häftad, 2009
225 kr
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On November 20, 1910, Mexicans initiated the world's first popular social revolution. The unbalanced progress of the previous regime triggered violence and mobilized individuals from all classes to demand social and economic justice. In the process they shaped modern Mexico at a cost of two million …
Mexico, La Patria
Propaganda and Production During World War II
Häftad, 2010
342 kr
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During the 1930s Mexico was undergoing a healing process after three decades of revolutionary turmoil and reform. In this climate, the coming of World War II became a major turning point in the legacy of the Mexican Revolution, offering the country a unique opportunity to unite against a common …
Pistoleros and Popular Movements
The Politics of State Formation in Postrevolutionary Oaxaca
E-bok, 2009
420 kr
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The postrevolutionary reconstruction of the Mexican government did not easily or immediately reach all corners of the country. At every level, political intermediaries negotiated, resisted, appropriated, or ignored the dictates of the central government. National policy reverberated through …
Independent Mexico
The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821–1858
Av Will Fowler
Häftad, 2016
458 kr
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In mid-nineteenth-century Mexico, garrisons, town councils, state legislatures, and an array of political actors, groups, and communities began aggressively petitioning the government at both local and national levels to address their grievances. Often viewed as a revolt or a coup d’État, these …
Forceful Negotiations
The Origins of the Pronunciamiento in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Av Will Fowler
Häftad, 2011
400 kr
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Often translated as "revolt," a pronunciamiento was a formal, written protest, typically drafted as a list of grievances or demands, that could result in an armed rebellion. This common nineteenth-century Hispano-Mexican extraconstitutional practice was used by soldiers and civilians to forcefully …
Celebrating Insurrection
The Commemoration and Representation of the Nineteenth-Century Mexican Pronunciamiento
Av Will Fowler
Häftad, 2013
516 kr
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The pronunciamiento, a formal list of grievances designed to spark political change in nineteenth-century Mexico, was a problematic yet necessary practice. Although pronunciamientos rarely achieved the goals for which they were undertaken and sometimes resulted in armed rebellion, they were …
Malcontents, Rebels, and Pronunciados
The Politics of Insurrection in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Av Will Fowler
Häftad, 2012
458 kr
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Behind every pronunciamiento, a formal list of grievances designed to spark political change in nineteenth-century Mexico, was a disgruntled individual, rebel, or pronunciado. Initially a role undertaken by soldiers, a pronunciado rallied military communities to petition for local, regional, and …
Mexico's Crucial Century, 1810-1910
An Introduction
Av William H. Beezley, Colin M. MacLachlan
Häftad, 2010
342 kr
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After Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821, it began the work of forging its identity as an independent nation, a process that would endure throughout the crucial nineteenth century. A weakened Mexico faced American territorial ambitions and economic pressure, and the U.S.-Mexican War …
Gender and the Negotiation of Daily Life in Mexico, 1750–1856
Häftad, 2012
458 kr
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History is not just about great personalities, wars, and revolutions; it is also about the subtle aspects of more ordinary matters. On a day-to-day basis the aspects of life that most preoccupied people in late eighteenth- through mid nineteenth-century Mexico were not the political machinations of …
Muy Buenas Noches
Mexico, Television, and the Cold War
Av Celeste Gonzalez de Bustamante
Häftad, 2013
445 kr
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By the end of the twentieth century, Mexican multimedia conglomerate Televisa stood as one of the most powerful media companies in the world. Most scholars have concluded that the company's success was owed in large part to its executives who walked in lockstep with the government and the Partido …
Working Women, Entrepreneurs, and the Mexican Revolution
The Coffee Culture of Córdoba, Veracruz
Häftad, 2013
560 kr
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In the 1890s, Spanish entrepreneurs spearheaded the emergence of Córdoba, Veracruz, as Mexico's largest commercial center for coffee preparation and export to the Atlantic community. Seasonal women workers quickly became the major part of the agroindustry's labor force. As they grew in numbers and …
Civilizing Machine
A Cultural History of Mexican Railroads, 1876-1910
Häftad, 2014
445 kr
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In late nineteenth-century Mexico the Mexican populace was fascinated with the country's booming railroad network. Newspapers and periodicals were filled with art, poetry, literature, and social commentaries exploring the symbolic power of the railroad. As a symbol of economic, political, and …
Railroad Radicals in Cold War Mexico
Gender, Class, and Memory
Häftad, 2014
458 kr
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Despite the Mexican government’s projected image of prosperity and modernity in the years following World War II, workers who felt that Mexico’s progress had come at their expense became increasingly discontented. From 1948 to 1958, unelected and often corrupt officials of STFRM, the railroad …
Murder and Counterrevolution in Mexico
The Eyewitness Account of German Ambassador Paul Von Hintze, 1912-1914
Häftad, 2015
342 kr
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Admiral Paul von Hintze arrived in Mexico in the spring of 1911 to serve as Germany's ambassador to a country in a state of revolution. Germany's emperor Wilhelm II had selected Hintze as his personal eyes and ears in Mexico (and concomitantly the neighboring United States) during the portentous …
Lawyer of the Church
Bishop Clemente De Jesús Munguía and the Clerical Response to the Mexican Liberal Reforma
Häftad, 2015
502 kr
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Mexico's Reforma, the mid-nineteenth-century liberal revolution, decisively shaped the country by disestablishing the Catholic Church, secularizing public affairs, and laying the foundations of a truly national economy and culture.The Lawyer of the Church is an examination of the Mexican clergy's …
Plan De San Diego
Tejano Rebellion, Mexican Intrigue
Av Charles H. Harris, Louis R. Sadler
Häftad, 2013
516 kr
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The Plan of San Diego, a rebellion proposed in 1915 to overthrow the U.S. government in the Southwest and establish a Hispanic republic in its stead, remains one of the most tantalizing documents of the Mexican Revolution. The plan called for an insurrection of Mexicans, Mexican Americans, and …
Seen and Heard in Mexico
Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism
Inbunden, 2015
855 kr
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During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were …
Seen and Heard in Mexico
Children and Revolutionary Cultural Nationalism
Häftad, 2015
388 kr
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During the first two decades following the Mexican Revolution, children in the country gained unprecedented consideration as viable cultural critics, social actors, and subjects of reform. Not only did they become central to the reform agenda of the revolutionary nationalist government; they were …
Heart in the Glass Jar
Love Letters, Bodies, and the Law in Mexico
Inbunden, 2015
403 kr
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The Heart in the Glass Jar begins with one man's literal heart (that of a prominent statesman in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico) but is truly about the hearts, bodies, legal entanglements, and letters—as both symbols and material objects—of northern Mexicans from the 1860s through the 1930s. William …
Radio in Revolution
Wireless Technology and State Power in Mexico, 1897–1938
Inbunden, 2016
822 kr
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Long before the Arab Spring and its use of social media demonstrated the potent intersection between technology and revolution, the Mexican Revolution employed wireless technology in the form of radiotelegraphy and radio broadcasting to alter the course of the revolution and influence how political …
Inevitable Bandstand
The State Band of Oaxaca and the Politics of Sound
Inbunden, 2015
764 kr
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In the hands of the state, music is a political tool. The Banda de Música del Estado de Oaxaca (State Band of Oaxaca, BME), a civil organization nearly as old as the modern state of Oaxaca itself, offers unique insights into the history of a modern political state.In The Inevitable Bandstand, …
Street Democracy
Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico
Häftad, 2017
342 kr
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No visitor to Mexico can fail to recognize the omnipresence of street vendors, selling products ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared food and clothes. The vendors compose a large part of the informal economy, which altogether represents at least 30 percent of Mexico’s economically active …
Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Inbunden, 2015
822 kr
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Drawing on an analysis of issues surrounding the consumption of alcohol in a diverse range of source materials, including novels, newspapers, medical texts, and archival records, this lively and engaging interdisciplinary study explores sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810 …
Alcohol and Nationhood in Nineteenth-Century Mexico
Häftad, 2015
342 kr
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Drawing on an analysis of issues surrounding the consumption of alcohol in a diverse range of source materials, including novels, newspapers, medical texts, and archival records, this lively and engaging interdisciplinary study explores sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810 …
Street Democracy
Vendors, Violence, and Public Space in Late Twentieth-Century Mexico
Inbunden, 2017
822 kr
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No visitor to Mexico can fail to recognize the omnipresence of street vendors, selling products ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared food and clothes. The vendors compose a large part of the informal economy, which altogether represents at least 30 percent of Mexico’s economically active …
Inevitable Bandstand
The State Band of Oaxaca and the Politics of Sound
Häftad, 2015
342 kr
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In the hands of the state, music is a political tool. The Banda de Música del Estado de Oaxaca (State Band of Oaxaca, BME), a civil organization nearly as old as the modern state of Oaxaca itself, offers unique insights into the history of a modern political state.In The Inevitable Bandstand, …
Death Is All Around Us
Corpses, Chaos, and Public Health in Porfirian Mexico City
Inbunden, 2019
589 kr
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Late nineteenth-century Mexico was a country rife with health problems. In 1876, one out of every nineteen people died prematurely in Mexico City, a staggeringly high rate when compared to other major Western world capitals at the time, which saw more modest premature death rates of one out of …
Independent Mexico
The Pronunciamiento in the Age of Santa Anna, 1821–1858
Av Will Fowler
E-bok, 2016
420 kr
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In mid-nineteenth-century Mexico, garrisons, town councils, state legislatures, and an array of political actors, groups, and communities began aggressively petitioning the government at both local and national levels to address their grievances. Often viewed as a revolt or a coup d’État, these …
Redeeming the Revolution
The State and Organized Labor in Post-Tlatelolco Mexico
Inbunden, 2017
822 kr
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A tale of sin and redemption, Joseph U. Lenti’s Redeeming the Revolution demonstrates how the killing of hundreds of student protestors in Mexico City’s Tlatelolco district on October 2–3, 1968, sparked a crisis of legitimacy that moved Mexican political leaders to reestablish their revolutionary …
