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  • The Hunt for Pancho Villa

    The Columbus Raid and Pershing’s Punitive Expedition 1916–17

    Série Kniha 29 - Raid
    On March 9, 1916, troops under the command of Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico and its local detachment of the US 13th Cavalry Regiment, killing 18 people and burning the town.Six days later, on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing led an expeditionary force of 4,800 men into Mexico to capture Villa. What followed was a series of skirmishes, battles ... Přečtěte si více

    356,89 Kč

  • The Hunt for Pancho Villa - The Columbus Raid and Pershing's Punitive Expedition 1916-17

    Série Kniha 29 - Raid
    On March 9, 1916, troops under the command of Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico and its local detachment of the US 13th Cavalry Regiment, killing 18 people and burning the town. Six days later, on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, General John J. 'Black Jack' Pershing led an expeditionary force of 4,800 men into Mexico to capture Villa. What followed was a series of skirmishes, ... Přečtěte si více

    161,79 Kč

  • The Hunt for Pancho Villa

    The Columbus Raid and Pershing’s Punitive Expedition 1916–17

    Série Kniha 29 - Raid
    On March 9, 1916, troops under the command of Pancho Villa attacked Columbus, New Mexico and its local detachment of the US 13th Cavalry Regiment, killing 18 people and burning the town. Six days later, on orders from President Woodrow Wilson, General John J. “Black Jack” Pershing led an expeditionary force of 4,800 men into Mexico to capture Villa. What followed was a series of skirmishes, ... Přečtěte si více

    308,09 Kč

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  • The Life and Times of Mexico

    podle Earl Shorris ...
    A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of 2004. "A work of scope and profound insight into the divided soul of Mexico."--History TodayThe Life and Times of Mexico is a grand narrative driven by 3,000 years of history: the Indian world, the Spanish invasion, Independence, the 1910 Revolution, the tragic lives of workers in assembly plants along the border, and the experiences of millions of Mexicans ... Přečtěte si více

    294,09 Kč

  • Mexico in World History

    podle William H. Beezley ...
    Série série New Oxford World History
    Drawing on materials ranging from archaeological findings to recent studies of migration issues and drug violence, William H. Beezley provides a dramatic narrative of human events as he recounts the story of Mexico in the context of world history. Beginning with the Mayan and Aztec civilizations and their brutal defeat at the hands of the Conquistadors, Beezley highlights the penetrating effect of ... Přečtěte si více

    624,59 Kč

  • Mexico’s Once and Future Revolution

    Social Upheaval and the Challenge of Rule since the Late Nineteenth Century

    In this concise historical analysis of the Mexican Revolution, Gilbert M. Joseph and Jürgen Buchenau explore the revolution's causes, dynamics, consequences, and legacies. They do so from varied perspectives, including those of campesinos and workers; politicians, artists, intellectuals, and students; women and men; the well-heeled, the dispossessed, and the multitude in the middle. In the process ... Přečtěte si více

    410,89 Kč

  • Deco Body, Deco City

    Female Spectacle and Modernity in Mexico City, 1900–1939

    podle Ageeth Sluis ...
    Série série The Mexican Experience
    In the turbulent decades following the Mexican Revolution, Mexico City saw a drastic influx of female migrants seeking escape and protection from the ravages of war in the countryside. While some settled in slums and tenements, where the informal economy often provided the only means of survival, the revolution, in the absence of men, also prompted women to take up traditionally male roles, ... Přečtěte si více

    514,59 Kč

  • Fires on the Border

    The Passionate Politics of Labor Organizing on the Mexican Frontera

    podle Rosemary Hennessy ...
    The history of the maquiladoras has been punctuated by workers’ organized resistance to abysmal working and living conditions. Over years of involvement in such movements, Rosemary Hennessy was struck by an elusive but significant feature of these struggles: the extent to which organizing is driven by attachments of affection and antagonism, belief, betrayal, and identification.What precisely is ... Přečtěte si více

    367,59 Kč

  • Yankee Don't Go Home!

    Mexican Nationalism, American Business Culture, and the Shaping of Modern Mexico, 1920-1950

    podle Julio Moreno ...
    Série série The Luther H. Hodges Jr. and Luther H. Hodges Sr. Series on Business, Entrepreneurship, and Public Policy
    In the aftermath of the 1910 Mexican Revolution, Mexican and U.S. political leaders, business executives, and ordinary citizens shaped modern Mexico by making industrial capitalism the key to upward mobility into the middle class, material prosperity, and a new form of democracy — consumer democracy. Julio Moreno describes how Mexico’s industrial capitalism between 1920 and 1950 shaped the country ... Přečtěte si více

    581,79 Kč

  • Democratization Without Representation

    The Politics of Small Industry in Mexico

    podle Kenneth C. Shadlen ...
    When countries become more democratic, new opportunities arise for individuals and groups to participate in politics and influence the making of policy. But democratization does not ensure better representation for everyone, and indeed some sectors of society are ill-equipped to take advantage of these new opportunities. Small industry in Mexico, Kenneth Shadlen shows, is an excellent example of a ... Přečtěte si více

    754,59 Kč

  • The Time of Popular Sovereignty

    Process and the Democratic State

    Democracy is usually conceived as based on self-rule or rule by the people, and it is this which is taken to ground the legitimacy of the democratic form of government. But who constitutes the people? Democratic political theory has a potentially fatal weakness at its core unless it can answer this question satisfactorily. In The Time of Popular Sovereignty, Paulina Ochoa Espejo examines the ... Přečtěte si více

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  • A Century of Chicano History

    Empire, Nations and Migration

    This study argues for a radically new interpretation of the origins and evolution of the ethnic Mexican community across the US. This book offers a definitive account of the interdependent histories of the US and Mexico as well as the making of the Chicano population in America. The authors link history to contemporary issues, emphasizing the overlooked significance of late 19th and 20th century ... Přečtěte si více

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