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Pathways to Complexity
Pathways to Complexity synthesizes a wealth of new archaeological data to illuminate the origins of Maya civilization and the rise of Classic Maya culture. In this volume, prominent Maya scholars argue that the development of social, religious, and economic complexity began during the Middle Preclassic period (1000–300 B.C.), hundreds of years earlier than previously thought. Contributors reveal that villages were present in parts of the lowlands by 1000 B.C., challenging the prevailing models estimating when civilization took root in the area. Combining recent discoveries from the northern lowlands—an area often neglected in other volumes—and the southern lowlands, the collection then...
Mexico in Its Novel
Mexico in Its Novel is a perceptive examination of the Mexican reality as revealed through the nation's novel. The author presents the Mexican novel as a cultural phenomenon: a manifestation of the impact of history upon the nation, an attempt by a people to come to grips with and understand what has happened and is happening to them. Written in a clear and graceful style, this study examines the life of the novel as a genre against the background of Mexican chronology. It begins with a survey of the mid-twentieth-century novel, the Mexican novel which came of age in the period following the 1947 publication of Agustín Yáñez's The Edge of the Storm. During this time the novel resolved som...
The Ancient Maya of Mexico
The archaeological sites of Mexico's Yucatan peninsula are among the most visited ancient cities of the Americas. Archaeologists have recently made great advances in our understanding of the social and political milieu of the northern Maya lowlands. However, such advances have been under-represented in both scholarly and popular literature until now. 'The Ancient Maya of Mexico' presents the results of new and important archaeological, epigraphic, and art historical research in the Mexican states of Yucatan, Campeche, and Quintana Roo. Ranging across the Middle Preclassic to the Modern periods, the volume explores how new archaeological data has transformed our understanding of Maya history. 'The Ancient Maya of Mexico' will be invaluable to students and scholars of archaeology and anthropology, and all those interested in the society, rituals and economic organisation of the Maya region.
Being the Heart of the World
Tells the story of New Spain's integration into the Pacific world and the impact it had on mobility and identity-making.
Tucson
A history of Tucson, Arizona, traces the development of this great southwestern city from its beginning as a mud village in northern Mexico two centuries ago to its emergence as an American metropolis.
Twin Tollans
This volume had its beginnings in the two-day colloquium, "Rethinking Chichén Itzá, Tula and Tollan," that was held at Dumbarton Oaks. The selected essays revisit long-standing questions regarding the nature of the relationship between Chichen Itza and Tula. Rather than approaching these questions through the notions of migrations and conquests, these essays place the cities in the context of the emerging social, political, and economic relationships that took shape during the transition from the Epiclassic period in Central Mexico, the Terminal Classic period in the Maya region, and the succeeding Early Postclassic period.
Responding to Globalisation
This comprehensive analysis of the way in which governments and firms have responded to globalisation examines closely the options available to both, and the historical contexts of the strategic decisions made.
Transpacific Literary and Cultural Connections
This critical interdisciplinary volume investigates modern and contemporary Asian cultural products in the non-westernized transpacific context of Asian and Latin American intellectual and cultural connections. It focuses on the Latin American intellectual, literary, and cultural influences on Asia, which have long been overshadowed by the dominance of Europe/North America-oriented discourse and by the predominance of academic research by both Asian and western intellectuals that focuses only on the West. Moving beyond the western intellectual paradigm, the volume examines how Asian literature, films, and art interact with Latin American literature and ideas to reexamine, reconsider, and re-explore issues related to the two regions' historical traumas, cultural identities, indigenous/vernacular traditions, and peripheral global-ness. The volume argues that Asian and Latin American literary and cultural endeavors are part of these regions' broader efforts to search for the forms of modernity that best fit their unique sociohistorical and sociocultural conditions.
The Black Middle
The Black Middle is the first book-length study of the interaction of black slaves and other people of African descent with Mayas and Spaniards in the Spanish colonial province of Yucatan (southern Mexico).
El idioma del liderazgo
En tiempos de una profunda crisis que ha llevado a la incertidumbre a las organizaciones, es necesario que los líderes que las dirigen reúnan una serie de habilidades imprescindibles para llevarlas a buen puerto. Como defiende el autor, el liderazgo es un idioma que algunas personas son capaces de aprender mientras a otras les resulta muy complicado lograrlo. En este libro, Javier Fernández Aguado sintetiza en 1.000 breves consejos todo aquello que debe reunir un directivo para ser un verdadero líder. Para ello, los agrupa en 51 bloques temáticos que tocan todos los aspectos necesarios para desarrollar su talento y poder dirigir personas y organizaciones en momentos de máxima dificultad. En esas 1.000 píldoras, el autor sintetiza sus años de estudio y de trabajo como reconocido experto internacional en el gobierno de personas y organizaciones. Son breves enseñanzas llenas de profundidad, de conocimiento y, a la vez, de un gran sentido práctico, válidas para cualquier tipo de directivo que quiera mejorar su rendimiento y el de los que tiene a su alrededor.
