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Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Stuides, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and...
"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
Selected rape victim testimonies. -- Impunity for sexual and domestic violence. Sexual and domestic violence: Underreported and underrepresented in government crime estimates - Inadequate legal framework for the prevention and punishment of violence against women: State law and policy on domestic violence ; state law and policy on sexual violence. - Lax implementation of legal standards: Pervasive distrust of rape victim testimony ; Other barriers to reporting rape ; Undue emphasis on reconciliation and mediation ; The cost of justice ; Lack of public services. -- Abortion in Mexico. Legal framework, public debate, and occurrence - Prosecution for illegal abortions. -- Obstructing access to ...
This meticulous study examines the holdings of the Guadalajara diocese and explains who took possession of them when the Mexican government appropriated church properties.
Historia de México 2 tiene como propósito dotar a los estudiantes de conocimientos relevantes y pertinentes sobre el devenir histórico de nuestro país, a partir de la revisión de las diferentes ideologías al iniciar la vida independiente y cómo se fueron transformando en proyectos de nación. A su vez, podrá valorar los logros de las repúblicas federal y central, durante las cuales se dieron intervenciones extranjeras que tuvieron como consecuencia la pérdida de territorios que ocasionó la revolución de Ayutla que puso fin a la dictadura de Antonio López de Santa Anna. Todo ello contribuyó a la creación de un nacionalismo plasmado en una nueva Constitución promulgada en 1857;...
2019 Thomas McGann Award for best publication in Latin American Studies In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman's presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolution and jobs traditionally held by women disappeared, a growing number of women began to look for work outside the domestic sphere. As these "angels of the home" began to take office jobs, middle-class identity became more porous. To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Worker examines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their e...
Este libro estudia el déficit que México registra con el Noreste Asiático, originado por el tipo de comercio que realiza con base en exportar productos primarios o de baja intensidad tecnológica o de insumos para la exportación, mientras que importa del noreste asiático bienes con alto valor agregado, por lo que se analiza el gasto que hacen en el sector de innovación, el cual se mide con los productos más significativos de este rubro, para verificar si se encuentra relacionado con su crecimiento y se revisa si el alto soporte científico, industrial y de innovación que tiene cada uno de los países del noreste de Asia detrás de su PIB es suficiente para justificar la especializaci...
"El Diccionario General del Zulia es por mucho el libro de Historia del Zulia más importante publicado, después de la Historia de Juan Besson. Su contribución al genero biográfico es única en Venezuela y su aporte bibliohemerográfico de la zulianidad no tiene parangón, sino en los trabajos de Germán Cardozo Galué y Patricia Pineda. En este libro está resumida y presentada de forma práctica toda la historia del Zulia y se proyecta en ella a los próceres civiles de nuestro futuro. Es un acervo bibliográfico que marca un antes y un después en la investigación historiográfica, periodística y artística de todo el Occidente del país. Nuestro libro fundamental, en muchos sentidos...