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Creating Mexican Consumer Culture in the Age of Porfirio Díaz
In Gabriel García Márquez’s novel One Hundred Years of Solitude, a character articulates the fascination goods, technology, and modernity held for many Latin Americans in the early twentieth century when he declares that “incredible things are happening in this world.” The modernity he marvels over is the new availability of cheap and useful goods. Steven Bunker’s study shows how goods and consumption embodied modernity in the time of Porfirio Díaz, how they provided proof to Mexicans that “incredible things are happening in this world.” In urban areas, and especially Mexico City, being a consumer increasingly defined what it meant to be Mexican. In an effort to reconstruct...
Angling for You
When you’ve lost nearly everything, can you trust enough to put your heart on the line? As a fly fishing guide, Sam Halvorsen is a woman in a man’s world and she’s heard enough bad jokes about rods to last a lifetime. When she takes Graham Evans out on the water, her goal is to get her payday and deposit the handsome librarian back on dry land. Yet not only does Graham have an adorable dog, he respects her skills and knowledge. Sam finds herself confiding in him about her grief and fear of abandonment following the death of the grandmother who raised her. Even more surprising, she finds herself giving into the attraction and passion between them. Sam never expected to find the love of a man who sees her for exactly who she is. But just as she’s starting to trust her feelings for Graham, a letter arrives, bringing with it a torrent of family secrets and lies that could ruin everything.
Magazines, Tourism, and Nation-Building in Mexico
This open access book discusses the relationship between periodicals, tourism, and nation-building in Mexico. It enquires into how magazines, a staple form of the promotional apparatus of tourism since its inception, articulated an imaginative geography of Mexico at a time when that industry became a critical means of economic recovery and political stability after the Revolution. Notwithstanding their vogue, popularity, reach, and close affiliations to commerce and state over several decades, magazines have not received any sustained critical attention in the scholarship on that period. This book aims to redress that oversight. It argues that illustrated magazines like Mexican Folkways (1925–1937) and Mexico This Month (1955–1971) offer rich and compelling materials in that regard, not only as unique tools for interrogating the ramifications of tourism on the country’s reconstruction, but as autonomous objects of study that form a vital if complex part of Mexico’s visual culture.
The Lady Hellion
When a lady vigilante seeks the help of a dashing yet reclusive lord, an amorous adventure begins in this Regency romance. A rabble rouser for justice, Lady Sophia Barnes is on a mission to protect the ladies of Madame Hartley's brothel from a mysterious killer. A master of deception and disguise, her fate is in her own hands—along with a loaded gun. All she needs now is instruction on how to shoot it. But only one person can help her: Damien Beecham, Viscount Quint, the man who broke her heart years ago . . . The last thing Lord Quint needs is an intrusion on his privacy, especially from the beautiful, exasperating woman he's never stopped wanting. A woman with a perilously absurd request, no less! For Damien is fighting a battle of his own—one has secret as his feelings for Lady Sophia. But as Sophie’s beauty and persistence break down his defenses, Quint knows that he will die trying to protect her. “The romance is delectable as sensual love scenes balance the well-woven mystery subplot.” —Publishers Weekly
Los niños
Rescate diacrónico del papel de la infancia, su participación en el hogar, en la calle, en su relación con figuras de autoridad desde padres hasta funcionarios.
Resilience
Evil's coldness sapped warmth from Denise Tyler's heart. The file's contents mocked her while the dagger of exposure wrenched her soul. The couple paragraphs on the second page revealed scum below the level of Jeremy Guerdon's pretense. How could she have believed his lies? Nothing prepared Denise Tyler for the discovery of her fiance's secret: Jeremy Guerdon makes his living killing people, and she's next on the list. She hurriedly packs a bag and flees his New Jersey home to her parents' home in Knoxville, Tennessee, before he can find out. At home, Denise's father, the successful pharmaceutical entrepreneur Clifton Tyler, seeks the rights to market a new drug reputed to eradicate the effe...
De márgenes, barrios y suburbios en la ciudad de México, siglos XVI-XXI
A través de un complejo y rico recorrido historiográfico por la génesis de la ciudad, poco más de 9 km cuadrados que durante siglos contuvieron el casco y sus barrios primigenios, el presente libro indaga sobre el vínculo entre la fundación de la urbe mexicana, su existencia virreinal y su posterior crecimiento.
Cultura líquida
Muchas culturas han encontrado maneras de fermentar y destilar diferentes materias primas para producir un líquido casi mágico que es capaz, no solo de alterar los sentidos, sino también de generar comercio, rituales, prohibiciones, imaginarios y mitos, así como de modificar los espacios sociales. Las bebidas alcohólicas han estado presentes en la historia de Colombia, sin embargo, fue entre 1880 y 1930 cuando se experimentó el mayor cambio en la forma de consumirlas, especialmente en Bogotá. Durante estos años, la capital fue testigo del flujo de nuevas mercancías, imaginarios y saberes que el desarrollo de la economía global capitalista vertía sobre sus calles, tabernas y fábri...
Antología de la Independencia de México, formada de los almanaques, años nuevos, calendarios y guías de forasteros 1822-1910
Esta compilación ofrece al lector la oportunidad de adentrarse en el proceso configurativo de la identidad nacional que el novel país forjó a lo largo de dicha centuria, y en el cual los editores de aquella época asumieron un importante pael de difusión y enseñanza.
The Hellion
Whalley, 1537: On a day like any other, a devastating fire changes the lives of two young girls. What happens next triggers a series of events leading inexplicably to the cells of Lancaster Gaol. Lancashire, 1612: The most notorious witchcraft trials in England are taking place. Among the accused, three generations of the same family. A family rooted in Pendle, tied to the infamous Malkin Towers and always followed by a whisper of evil. A family destroyed by the evidence given by a nine year old girl...
