A New Time For Mexico
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Author | : Carlos Fuentes |
Publisher | : A&C Black |
Total Pages | : 226 |
Release | : 2013-05-18 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1408845008 |
From time immemorial, Mexico's legendary beauty has been matched by intense historical drama. Mayan mythmakers, Aztec emperors, Spanish conquistadors, Yankee and French invaders, dictators and peasant revolutionaries are still vivid influences on Mexico's present. In this stunning collection of essays, first published in Britain in 1997, Carlos Fuentes examines mexico as it faces a new time. Torn between tradition and modernity, impatient with an exhausted political system but unsure how and with what to replace it, Mexicans are struggling to make the transition from authoritarian to democratic politics. Fuentes' bold and timely study discusses the origins and nature of the unforeseen events that have transformed Mexico's politics and scoiety: the 1994 rebellion in Chiapas, the subsequent rash of assassinations, the break between Presidents Salinas and Zedillo, and continual traumas for democratic self-rule.
Author | : Earl Shorris |
Publisher | : W. W. Norton & Company |
Total Pages | : 801 |
Release | : 2012-01-09 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 039334374X |
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. "A work of scope and profound insight into the divided soul of Mexico." —History Today The 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 who live in the United States. Mexico is seen here as if it were a person, but in the Aztec way; the mind, the heart, the winds of life; and on every page there are portraits and stories: artists, shamans, teachers, a young Maya political leader; the rich few and the many poor. Earl Shorris is ingenious at finding ways to tell this story: prostitutes in the Plaza Loreto launch the discussion of economics; we are taken inside two crucial elections as Mexico struggles toward democracy; we watch the creation of a popular "telenovela" and meet the country's greatest living intellectual. The result is a work of magnificent scope and profound insight into the divided soul of Mexico.
Author | : Andrés Manuel López Obrador |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2018 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : 9780745339535 |
The newly elected left-wing President sets out his programme for a new Mexico.
Author | : Editors of Time Out |
Publisher | : Time Out Guides |
Total Pages | : 0 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : 9781846701115 |
A vast, dazzling megacity, Mexico City has all too often been overlooked by international explorers in search of urban elegance and charm. Having quietly cleaned up its act over the past few years, it's starting to attract attention in all the right ways.
Author | : Paul Theroux |
Publisher | : Eamon Dolan Books |
Total Pages | : 459 |
Release | : 2019 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 0544866479 |
Legendary travel writer Paul Theroux drives the entire length of the US-Mexico border, then goes deep into the hinterland, on the back roads of Chiapas and Oaxaca, to uncover the rich, layered world behind today's brutal headlines. Paul Theroux has spent his life crisscrossing the globe in search of the histories and peoples that give life to the places they call home. Now, as immigration debates boil around the world, Theroux has set out to explore a country key to understanding our current discourse: Mexico. Just south of the Arizona border, in the desert region of Sonora, he finds a place brimming with vitality, yet visibly marked by both the US Border Patrol looming to the north and mounting discord from within. With the same humanizing sensibility he employed in Deep South, Theroux stops to talk with residents, visits Zapotec mill workers in the highlands, and attends a Zapatista party meeting, communing with people of all stripes who remain south of the border even as their families brave the journey north. From the writer praised for his "curiosity and affection for humanity in all its forms" (New York Times Book Review), On the Plain of Snakes is an exploration of a region in conflict.
Author | : David Lida |
Publisher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 360 |
Release | : 2008-06-12 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1440631646 |
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 life in a city defined by pleasure and danger, ecstatic joy and appalling tragedy-hanging in limbo between the developed and underdeveloped worlds. With this literary-journalist account, he establishes himself as the ultimate chronicler of this bustling megalopolis at a key moment in its-and our-history.
Author | : Daniel Hernandez |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 290 |
Release | : 2011-02-08 |
Genre | : Travel |
ISBN | : 1451610181 |
MEXICO CITY, with some 20 million inhabitants, is the largest city in the Western Hemisphere. Enormous growth, raging crime, and tumultuous politics have also made it one of the most feared and misunderstood. Yet in the past decade, the city has become a hot spot for international business, fashion, and art, and a magnet for thrill-seeking expats from around the world. In 2002, Daniel Hernandez traveled to Mexico City, searching for his cultural roots. He encountered a city both chaotic and intoxicating, both underdeveloped and hypermodern. In 2007, after quitting a job, he moved back. With vivid, intimate storytelling, Hernandez visits slums populated by ex-punks; glittering, drug-fueled fashion parties; and pseudo-native rituals catering to new-age Mexicans. He takes readers into the world of youth subcultures, in a city where punk and emo stand for a whole way of life—and sometimes lead to rumbles on the streets. Surrounded by volcanoes, earthquake-prone, and shrouded in smog, the city that Hernandez lovingly chronicles is a place of astounding manifestations of danger, desire, humor, and beauty, a surreal landscape of “cosmic violence.” For those who care about one of the most electrifying cities on the planet, “Down & Delirious in Mexico City is essential reading” (David Lida, author of First Stop in the New World).
Author | : Laurie Krebs |
Publisher | : Barefoot Books |
Total Pages | : 44 |
Release | : 2006 |
Genre | : Children |
ISBN | : 1905236409 |
We swim in turquoise water and build castles on the beach. We climb up rocks or watch from docks, To see the gray whales breach.
Author | : Donald Fithian Stevens |
Publisher | : University of New Mexico Press |
Total Pages | : 320 |
Release | : 2019-05-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0826360564 |
This captivating study tells Mexico’s best untold stories. The book takes the devastating 1833 cholera epidemic as its dramatic center and expands beyond this episode to explore love, lust, lies, and midwives. Parish archives and other sources tell us human stories about the intimate decisions, hopes, aspirations, and religious commitments of Mexican men and women as they made their way through the transition from the Viceroyalty of New Spain to an independent republic. In this volume Stevens shows how Mexico assumed a new place in Atlantic history as a nation coming to grips with modernization and colonial heritage, helping us to understand the paradox of a country with a reputation for fervent Catholicism that moved so quickly to disestablish the Church.
Author | : Rick Bayless |
Publisher | : Simon and Schuster |
Total Pages | : 392 |
Release | : 2000-10-25 |
Genre | : Cooking |
ISBN | : 068484186X |
120 recipes that includes classics as well as some original creations.