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The Requiem of Tomás Luis de Victoria (1603)
The first substantial study of Victoria's Requiem, among the most prominent Renaissance musical works, encompassing its genesis, style, and impact.
A Social History of Mexico's Railroads
Largely absent from our history books is the social history of railroad development in nineteenth-century Mexico, which promoted rapid economic growth that greatly benefited elites but also heavily impacted rural and provincial Mexican residents in communities traversed by the rails. In this beautifully written and original book, Teresa Van Hoy connects foreign investment in Mexico, largely in railroad development, with its effects on the people living in the isthmus of Tehuantepec, Mexico's region of greatest ethnic diversity. Students will be drawn to a fascinating cast of characters, as muleteers, artisans, hacienda peons, convict laborers, dockworkers, priests, and the rural police force...
Wealth and Power in Provincial Mexico
"Highly original work places the growth of an important state in the national and, at the same time, familial environment. Argues that the Reform must be seen in the context of a general economic upturn begun in the 1840s"--Handbook of Latin American Stud
A Selected Guide to the Literature of the Flowering Plants of Mexico
This bibliography is a guide to the literature on Mexican flowering plants, beginning with the days of the discovery and conquest of Mexico by the Spaniards in the early sixteenth century.
Victoria, un réquiem para María
Victoria, un réquiem para María narra dos historias separadas en el tiempo y enlazadas por la fuerza de la música. Por un lado, seguimos las peripecias de la vida de Gabriel, un joven cantante que ingresa en uno de los coros más importantes de Europa y que se encuentra en medio de un difícil triángulo amoroso; por otro, asistimos al transcurso de los últimos años de vida del genial compositor Tomás Luis de Victoria, así como a la génesis de su obra magna: el Officium Defunctorum para la emperatriz María.
