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“michael k schuessler”

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  • Foundational Arts

    Mural Painting and Missionary Theater in New Spain

    by Michael K. Schuessler ...
    The languages of two hemispheres collided when Spain conquered Mexico, and as a result, a dynamic expression of visual and dramatic arts emerged. Mural painting and missionary theater quickly became the media to explain and comprehend the encounter of indigenous peoples with Christ and the crucifixion, as well as with heaven and hell.In Foundational Arts Michael K. Schuessler asserts that the ... Read more

    $37.49 USD

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    Dispatches from Inside the Drug War

    by John Gibler ...
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    Mexico is in a state of siege. Since President Felipe Calderon declared a war on drugs in December 2006, more than 38,000 Mexican have been murdered. During the same period, drug money has infused over $130 billion into Mexico's economy, now the country's single largest source of income. Corruption and graft infiltrate all levels of government. Entire towns have become ungovernable, and of every ... Read more

    $13.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • First Stop in the New World

    by David Lida ...
    The definitive book on Mexico City: a vibrant, seductive, and paradoxical metropolis-the second-biggest city in the world, and a vision of our urban future.First Stop in the New World is a street-level panorama of Mexico City, the largest metropolis in the western hemisphere and the cultural capital of the Spanish-speaking world. Journalist David Lida expertly captures the kaleidoscopic nature of ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

  • Line in the Sand

    A History of the Western U.S.-Mexico Border

    by Rachel St. John ...
    Series series America in the World
    The first transnational history of the U.S.-Mexico borderLine in the Sand details the dramatic transformation of the western U.S.-Mexico border from its creation at the end of the Mexican-American War in 1848 to the emergence of the modern boundary line in the first decades of the twentieth century. In this sweeping narrative, Rachel St. John explores how this boundary changed from a mere line on ... Read more

    $26.69 USD

  • New Approaches to Resistance in Brazil and Mexico

    Edited by John Gledhill, Patience A. Schell ...
    Bringing together historically and ethnographically grounded studies of the social and political life of Brazil and Mexico, this collection of essays revitalizes resistance as an area of study. Resistance studies boomed in the 1980s and then was subject to a wave of critique in the 1990s. Covering the colonial period to the present day, the case studies in this collection suggest that, even if ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • Uprooting Community

    Japanese Mexicans, World War II, and the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands

    by Selfa A. Chew ...
    Joining the U.S.’ war effort in 1942, Mexican President Manuel Ávila Camacho ordered the dislocation of Japanese Mexican communities and approved the creation of internment camps and zones of confinement. Under this relocation program, a new pro-American nationalism developed in Mexico that scripted Japanese Mexicans as an internal racial enemy. In spite of the broad resistance presented by the ... Read more

    $19.49 USD

  • Translated Christianities

    Nahuatl and Maya Religious Texts

    by Mark Z. Christensen ...
    Series series Latin American Originals
    Beginning in the sixteenth century, ecclesiastics and others created religious texts written in the native languages of the Nahua and Yucatec Maya. These texts played an important role in the evangelization of central Mexico and Yucatan. Translated Christianities is the first book to provide readers with English translations of a variety of Nahuatl and Maya religious texts. It pulls Nahuatl and ... Read more

    $25.69 USD

  • Political Landscapes

    Forests, Conservation, and Community in Mexico

    by Christopher R. Boyer ...
    Following the 1917 Mexican Revolution inhabitants of the states of Chihuahua and Michoacán received vast tracts of prime timberland as part of Mexico's land redistribution program. Although locals gained possession of the forests, the federal government retained management rights, which created conflict over subsequent decades among rural, often indigenous villages; government; and private timber ... Read more

    $28.79 USD

  • The Women's Revolution in Mexico, 1910-1953

    by Katherine Elaine Bliss, Sarah A. Buck, Stephanie E. Mitchell, Carmen Ramos Escandón, Martha Eva Rocha, Nichole Sanders, Stephanie Smith, Andrew G. Wood ...
    Series series Latin American Silhouettes
    This book reinvigorates the debate on the Mexican Revolution, exploring what this pivotal event meant to women. The contributors offer a fresh look at women's participation in their homes and workplaces and through politics and community activism. They show how women of diverse backgrounds with differing goals were actively involved, first in military roles during the violent early phase of civil ... Read more

    $44.99 USD

  • All About: Awesome Aztecs

    by P S Quick ...
    Series Book 4 - All About...
    This fantastic book, filled with amazing facts and photographs, describes what life was like for the Aztecs. It gives an in-depth account of all aspects of life and people of the time - including sections about the city of Tenochtitlan, religion and gods, Aztec law and many more. The 'All About' series is an educational collection of books from P S Quick, and is targeted to interest 7 to 11 year ... Read more

    $4.49 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • Stand Up and Fight

    Participatory Indigenismo, Populism, and Mobilization in Mexico, 1970–1984

    by María L. O. Muñoz ...
    In 1975 a watershed moment captivated Mexico as indigenous peoples from across the country came together on the Island of Janitzio for the First National Congress of Indigenous Peoples. The congress was a federal government initiative intended to preempt an independent indigenous movement. But indigenous groups circumvented the intended containment policies of the congress and made bold demands ... Read more

    $41.09 USD

  • General Jo Shelby's March

    by Anthony Arthur ...
    Acclaimed historian Anthony Arthur tells one of the most remarkable but surprisingly unknown stories of the post–Civil War era in full for the first time. Here is the unforgettable account of how a famous Confederate general forged a defiant new life out of crushing defeat, and how he finally achieved forgiveness and respect in his own reunited land.General Jo Shelby had been a daring and ruthless ... Read more

    $12.99 USD