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This collection examines how immigration law shapes immigrant illegality, the concept of immigrant illegality, and how its power is wielded and resisted.
Contains scholarly evaluations of books and book chapters as well as conference papers and articles published worldwide in the field of Latin American studies. Covers social sciences and the humanities in alternate years.
Here is an authoritative reference work that makes biographies of prominent Mexican national politicians from the period 1884–1934 available in English. Like the author's biographical directory for the years 1935–2009, it draws on many years of research in Mexico and the United States and seeks not only to provide accurate biographical information about each entry but also, where possible and appropriate, to connect these politicians to more recent leadership generations. Thus, Mexican Political Biographies, 1884-1934 not only is a useful historical source but also provides additional information on the family backgrounds of many contemporary figures. The work includes those figures who ...
En La paz. 1876 Mauricio Tenorio Trillo explora el concepto de paz y sus implicaciones en la historia moderna tomando el año de 1876 como eje por su relativo orden y estabilidad política. El autor analiza guerras civiles, dictaduras, elecciones y regímenes militares ocurridos hacia 1876, así como los procesos de industrialización de los Estados-nación modernos y explora sus connotaciones filosóficas, políticas, éticas y artísticas. Posteriormente explora la idea de la pax alrededor de 1876 como purgatorio político y pragmático, mantenido a través de acuerdos económicos, convenios entre naciones, desarrollo tecnológico, medidas imperialistas y pacifismo científico. Finalmente, Tenorio Trillo da cuenta de la forma en la que se comprendía el tiempo, el riesgo, la distancia, la ciencia y la practicidad en la era de la pax purgatorio.
A compilation of pen names used by writers of Spanish America from the earliest colonial times until the present. Those readers wishing to verify a pseudonym for an author, and those wishing to find more detail regarding the author's use of a particular pseudonym will find 20,000 Spanish American Pseudonyms an invaluable reference tool for beginning their research.
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