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José Guadalupe Posada
"In 18 chapters the work offers a historic perspective on the years 1866-76 in Mexico through life of printmaker Posada. Points out many events and characters that had an impact on Posada's life, including his brother, Cirilo, and his move from Aguascalientes to León in 1872. Very entertaining, with good information sources. Illustrated in b/w"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.
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...
Abandoning Their Beloved Land
Abandoning Their Beloved Land offers an essential new history of the Bracero Program, a bilateral initiative that allowed Mexican men to work in the United States as seasonal contract farmworkers from 1942 to 1964. Using national and local archives in Mexico, historian Alberto García uncovers previously unexamined political factors that shaped the direction of the program, including how officials administered the bracero selection process and what motivated campesinos from central states to migrate. Notably, García's book reveals how and why the Mexican government's delegation of Bracero Program-related responsibilities, the powerful influence of conservative Catholic opposition groups in central Mexico, and the failures of the revolution's agrarian reform all profoundly influenced the program's administration and individuals' decisions to migrate as braceros.
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.
