Author: Heriberto Frias
Publisher: Oxford University Press on Demand
ISBN: 9780195117431
Category : Fiction
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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A fictional account of a military campaign ordered by Porfirio Diaz which resulted in the massacre in the village of Tomochic, Mexico, in 1892.

Author: Alfredo Mirandé
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226531600
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 296

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La Chicana is the story of a marginal group in society, neither fully Mexican or fully American, who suffer under triple oppression: as women, as members of a colonized culture, and as victims of a cultural heritage dominated by the cult of machismo. Tracing the role of Chicanas from pre-Columbian society to the present, the authors reveal the antecedents and roots of contemporary cultural expectations in Aztec, colonial, and revolutionary Mexican historical periods. A discussion of the contribution of modern Chicanas to their community and to feminism and a look at literary stereotypes and the emergence of Chicana literature to counter them round out this perceptive and sympathetic analysis.

Author: Paul J. Vanderwood
Publisher: Stanford University Press
ISBN: 9780804730396
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 448

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"Writing in a narrative style reminiscent of Womack's Zapata and the Mexican Revolution, author explains a series of 1890s uprisings in Tomochic, in the border state of Chihuahua, against the Porfirians' determination to dictate who would control the lan

Author: William E. French
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 1496206398
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 316

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A history of love and courtship in Mexico from the 1860s through the 1930s based on love letters preserved in legal cases involving courtship.

Author: Stephen B. Neufeld
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
ISBN: 0826358063
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 397

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This innovative social and cultural history explores the daily lives of the lowest echelons in president Porfirio Díaz’s army through the decades leading up to the 1910 Revolution. The author shows how life in the barracks—not just combat and drill but also leisure, vice, and intimacy—reveals the basic power relations that made Mexico into a modern society. The Porfirian regime sought to control and direct violence, to impose scientific hygiene and patriotic zeal, and to build an army to rival that of the European powers. The barracks community enacted these objectives in times of war or peace, but never perfectly, and never as expected. The fault lines within the process of creating the ideal army echoed the challenges of constructing an ideal society. This insightful history of life, love, and war in turn-of-the-century Mexico sheds useful light on the troubled state of the Mexican military more than a century later.

Author: Neftalí G. García
Publisher: Xlibris Corporation
ISBN: 1456809466
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 236

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This book narrates the story of the 1910 Mexican Revolution. It was a period of rebellion and ruthless violence. It reports the major events that shaped a nation’s character. It follows the lives of the major players of Heliosian power who led the revolution and sacrificed their lives for it. Parts of the book are fictionalized for dramatic purposes. These are in italics. Finally the story raises the moral question “How is it that ordinary men find the courage to put their lives on the line for an idea?”

Author: William H. Beezley
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 1442241233
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 305

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Mexicans, since national independence, have defined their challenges as problems or dimensions in their lives. They have faced these issues alone or with others through politics, security (the military, police, or even public health squads), religion, family, and popular groups. This unique reader collects documents—texts, visuals, videos, and sounds—from organizational reports, popular expressions, and ephemeral creations to express these concerns, reveal responses, and measure successes. They allow readers to consider and discuss how these documents enabled Mexicans to evaluate their history and culture from 1810 to the present. Offering a wide variety of materials that can be tailored to the needs of individual instructors, these rich sources will ​stimulate critical thinking and give students new insights and often surprising respect and understanding for the ways Mexicans have managed to find humor, even magic, in their lives.

Author: Jerry K. Sweeney
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 9780803293373
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404

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The second edition of A Handbook of American Military History delineates the military history of the United States from the Revolutionary War into the opening stages of the twenty-first century war on terrorism. Comprehensive and easy to use, it supplies essential information on the social, technological, political, tactical, and strategic developments that have affected the evolution of the U.S. armed forces. New to the second edition is a chapter on U.S. military history from 1995 through 2004 and an index. A Handbook of American Military History is the perfect reader's guide for the military history buff or anyone interested in a brief overview of American military history.

Author: William Curry Holden
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 264

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Born in 1873, she was the illegitimate daughter of a wealthy Mexican landowner and an Indian woman. The beautiful, spiritual Teresita played a dramatic role in the Mexican revolution.

Author: Andrew Grant Wood
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313087415
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 345

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The more than 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border is a focus of intense interest today, as immigration, security, and environmental issues dominate the headlines. This is the first A-to-Z encyclopedia to overview the unique and vibrant elements that make up the borderlands. More than 150 essay entries provide students and general readers with a solid sense of the U.S.-Mexico border history, culture, and politics. Coverage runs the gamut from key historical and contemporary figures, art, cuisine, sports, and religion to education, environment, legislation, radio, rhetoric, slavery, tourism, and women in Ciudad Juarez. The more than 2,000-mile U.S.-Mexico border is a focus of intense interest today, as immigration, security, and environmental issues dominate the headlines. This is the first A-to-Z encyclopedia to overview the unique and vibrant elements that make up the borderlands. More than 150 essay entries provide students and general readers with a solid sense of the U.S.-Mexico border history, culture, and politics. Coverage runs the gamut from key historical and contemporary figures, art, cuisine, sports, and religion to education, environment, legislation, radio, rhetoric, slavery, tourism, and women in Ciudad Juarez. Alphabetical and topical lists of entries in the frontmatter allow readers to find topics of interest quickly, as does the index. Those looking for more in-depth coverage will find many helpful suggestions in the Further Reading section per entry as well as in the Selected Bibliography. A chronology and historical photos also complement the text.