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A Land Between Waters
Mexico is one of the most ecologically diverse nations on the planet, with landscapes that range from rainforests to deserts and from small villages to the continent’s largest metropolis. Yet historians are only beginning to understand how people’s use of the land, extraction of its resources, and attempts to conserve it have shaped both the landscape and its inhabitants. A Land Between Waters explores the relationship between the people and the environment in Mexico. It heralds the arrival of environmental history as a major area of study within the field of Mexican history. This volume brings together a dozen original works of environmental history by some of the foremost experts in Me...
Indigenous Autocracy
When General Porfirio Díaz assumed power in 1876, he ushered in Mexico's first prolonged period of political stability and national economic growth—though "progress" came at the cost of democracy. Indigenous Autocracy presents a new story about how regional actors negotiated between national authoritarian rule and local circumstances by explaining how an Indigenous person held state-level power in Mexico during the thirty-five-year dictatorship that preceded the Mexican Revolution (the Porfiriato), and the apogee of scientific racism across Latin America. Although he was one of few recognizably Indigenous persons in office, Próspero Cahuantzi of Tlaxcala kept his position (1885–1911) l...
The Art of Urbanism
The Art of Urbanism explores how the royal courts of powerful Mesoamerican centers represented their kingdoms in architectural, iconographic, and cosmological terms. Through an investigation of the ecological contexts and environmental opportunities of urban centers, the contributors consider how ancient Mesoamerican cities defined themselves and reflected upon their physicalâe"and metaphysicalâe"place via their built environment. Themes in the volume include the ways in which a kingdomâe(tm)s public monuments were fashioned to reflect geographic space, patron gods, and mythology, and how the Olmec, Maya, Mexica, Zapotecs, and others sought to center their world through architectural monu...
Fueling Mexico
Germán Vergara explains how, when, and why fossil fuels (oil, coal, and natural gas) became the basis of Mexican society.
El agua y su historia
El agua está en el origen de la vida. Privilegio de nuestro planeta, a partir de este recurso el hombre construye sus mitos, religiones y civilizaciones. Sin embargo, debido a su explotación indiscriminada, se ha convertido en un bien caro, objeto de codicias y desafío mayor del siglo nuevo. La guerra del agua en el siglo XXI es un escenario posible. Por lo tanto la humanidad se inquieta del riesgo creciente de penurias que amenaza al planeta. Especialista en historia económica, el doctor Alejandro Tortolero Villaseñor presenta en este libro un recuento del tema del agua en México subrayando los grandes momentos que ha experimentado nuestro país en el manejo del agua.
Cartographic Mexico
Analyzes spatial history of 19th and early 20th century Mexico, particularly political uses of mapping and surveying, to demonstrate multiple ways that space can be negotiated in the service of local or national agendas.
Hacienda San Juan Colón
El estado de Puebla puede considerarse uno de los del centro del país que por su ubicación geográfica cuenta con los cascos de haciendas más antiguos. Los españoles a su llegada por Veracruz, transitaron en su camino hacia Tenochtitlán, por este bello y multifacético gran estado que cuenta con climas diversos, llanuras y montañas así como el fértil Valle de Izúcar de Matamoros donde se ha sembrado y cosechado caña durante más de 400 años. Aquí se encuentra la Hacienda San Juan Colón cuya historia como trapiche inicialmente y como ingenio azucarero después, nos devela este libro. Muchos son los personajes y familias que han transitado por ella como propietarios y muchos más ...
Mexican Literature in Theory
Mexican Literature in Theory is the first book in any language to engage post-independence Mexican literature from the perspective of current debates in literary and cultural theory. It brings together scholars whose work is defined both by their innovations in the study of Mexican literature and by the theoretical sophistication of their scholarship. Mexican Literature in Theory provides the reader with two contributions. First, it is one of the most complete accounts of Mexican literature available, covering both canonical texts as well as the most important works in contemporary production. Second, each one of the essays is in itself an important contribution to the elucidation of specific texts. Scholars and students in fields such as Latin American studies, comparative literature and literary theory will find in this book compelling readings of literature from a theoretical perspective, methodological suggestions as to how to use current theory in the study of literature, and important debates and revisions of major theoretical works through the lens of Mexican literary works.
