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The Mexico reader : history, culture, politics, edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson

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Summary
"A diverse collection of more than eighty selections, [including] ... poetry, folklore, fiction, polemics, photo essays, songs, political cartoons, memoirs, satire, and scholarly writing"--Page 4 of cover
Language
eng
Work
Publication
Extent
x, 792 pages
Contents
  • The search for "Lo Mexicano". The Mexican character / Joel Poinsett -- The cosmic race / José Vasconcelos -- The sons of La Malinche / Octavio Paz -- The problem of national culture / Guillermo Bonfil Batalla -- Does it mean anything to be Mexican? / Roger Bartra -- Mexico City 1992 / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Two Ranchera songs / José Alfredo Jiménez and Cuco Sanchez -- Ancient civilizations. The origins of the Aztecs / Anonymous -- The cost of courage in Aztec society / Inga Clendinnen -- Popol Vuh / Anonymous -- The meaning of maize for the Maya / J. Eric Thompson -- Omens foretelling the conquest / Anonymous -- Conquest and colony. The Spaniards' entry into Tenochtitlán and Tlatelolco / Anonymous -- The spiritual conquest / Fray Jerónimo de Mendieta -- Why the Indians are dying / Alonso de Zorita -- The Colonial Latifundio / Enrique Forescano -- A Baroque Archbishop-Viceroy / Irving Leonard -- On men's hypocrisy / Sor Juana -- The itching parrot, the priest, and the subdelegate / José Joaquin Fernández de Lizardi -- Trials of the young Republic. The siege of Guanajuato / Lucas Alamán -- Sentiments of the nation / José Maria Morelos -- Plan of Iguala / Agustin de Iturbide -- Women and war in Mexico / Frances Calderón de la Barca -- The glorious revolution of 1844 / Guillermo Prieto -- Décimas dedicated to Santa Anna's let / Anonymous -- War and finance, Mexican style / Juan Bautista Morales -- A conservative profession of faith / The editors of El Tiempo -- Considerations relating to the political and social situation / Mariano Otero -- Liberals and the land / Luis Gonzalez y Gonzalez -- Standard plots and rural resistance / Raymond B. Craib -- Offer of the crown to Maximilian / Junta of Conservative Notables -- A letter from Mexico / Empress Carlotta -- The triumph of the Republic / Benito Juárez -- Pofirio Díaz visits Yucatán / Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost -- Scenes from a lumber camp / B. Traven -- President Díaz, hero of the Americas / James Creelman -- Gift of the Skeletons / Anonymous -- Special section. Mexican history in photographs / John Mraz
  • Revolution. Land and liberty / Ricardo Flores Magón -- Plan of Ayala / Emiliano Zapata and others -- The restoration of the Ejido / Luis Cabrera -- Zapatistas in the Palace / Martin Luis Guzmán -- Mexico has been turned into a hell / William O. Jenkins -- Pancho Villa / John Reed -- La Punitiva / Anonymous -- Pedro Martinez / Oscar Lewis -- Juan the Chamula / Ricardo Pozas -- The Constitution of 1917: articles 27 and 123 -- An Agrarian encounter / Rosalie Evans -- Ode to Cuauhtémoc / Carlos Pellicer -- The socialist abc's / Anonymous -- Mexico must become a nation of institutions and laws / Plutarco Elias Calles -- The formation of the single-party state / Carlos Fuentes -- The rough and tumble career of Pedro Crespo / Gilbert M. Joseph and Allen Wells -- A convention in Zacapu / Salvador Lemus Fernández -- The Agrarian reform in La Laguna / Fernando Benitez -- The oil expropriation / Josephus Daniels -- Cárdenas and the masses / Arturo Anguiano -- The perils of modernity. They gave us the land / Juan Rulfo -- Mexico's crisis / Daniel Cosío Villegas -- Struggles of a Campesino leader / Rubén Jaramillo -- Art and corruption / David Alfaro Siqueiros -- The two faces of Acapulco during the Golden Age / Andrew Sackett -- Mexico / Sid Tepper and Roy c. Bennett -- The dark deeds of "El Negro" Durazo / José González G. -- The sinking city Joel Simon -- Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl / Roberto Vallarino -- Modesta Gómez / Rosario Castellanos
  • From the ruins. The student movement of 1968 / Elena Poniatowska -- El Santo's strange career / Anne Rubenstein -- After the earthquake / Victims' Coordinating Council -- Letters to Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas / Anonymous -- Corazón del Rocanrol / Rubén Martinez -- I don't believe them at all / Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio -- Identity hour / Carlos Monsiváis -- The COCEI of Juchitán, Oaxaca: two documents / Leopoldo de Gyves de la Cruz and COCEI -- Women of Juchitán / Jeffrey W. Rubin -- EZLN demands at the dialogue table / Zapatista Army of National Liberation -- The long journey from despair to hope / Subcomandante Marcos -- T Tzotzil Chronicle / Marián Peres Tsu -- Debtors' revenge / Heather Williams -- Mexicans would not be bought, coerced / Wayne A. Cornelius -- The border and beyond. Plan of San Diego / Anonymous -- The Mexican connection / Rudolfo Acuña -- The Maquiladoras / William Langewiesche -- Dompe Days / Luis Alberto Urrea -- Pedro P., Coyote / Judith Adler Hellman -- There's a party going on in Texas / Anonymous -- Two poems about immigrant life / Pat Mora and Gina Valdés -- The deadly harvest of the Sierra Madre / Alan Weisman -- Two songs about drug smuggling / Salomé Gutiérrez and Paulino Vargas -- The new world border / Guillermo Gómez-Peña
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9780822330066
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The Mexico reader : history, culture, politics
Title
The Mexico reader
Title remainder
history, culture, politics
Statement of responsibility
edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson
Contributor
Subject
Genre
Language
eng
Summary
"A diverse collection of more than eighty selections, [including] ... poetry, folklore, fiction, polemics, photo essays, songs, political cartoons, memoirs, satire, and scholarly writing"--Page 4 of cover
Member of
Cataloging source
DLC
Dewey number
972
Illustrations
  • illustrations
  • maps
Index
index present
Language note
Includes translations from Spanish
LC call number
F1226
LC item number
.M53 2002
Literary form
non fiction
Nature of contents
bibliography
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorDate
1947-
http://library.link/vocab/relatedWorkOrContributorName
  • Joseph, G. M.
  • Henderson, Timothy J
Series statement
The Latin America readers
http://library.link/vocab/subjectName
  • Mexico
  • Mexico
  • Mexico
  • Mexique
  • Mexique
  • Mexique
  • Economic history
  • Social conditions
  • Mexico
  • Cultuur
  • Politieke ontwikkeling
  • Sociaal-economische ontwikkeling
  • Gesellschaft
  • Kultur
  • Politik
  • Mexiko
  • Mexiko
Label
The Mexico reader : history, culture, politics, edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson
Link
Instantiates
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 757-762) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The search for "Lo Mexicano". The Mexican character / Joel Poinsett -- The cosmic race / José Vasconcelos -- The sons of La Malinche / Octavio Paz -- The problem of national culture / Guillermo Bonfil Batalla -- Does it mean anything to be Mexican? / Roger Bartra -- Mexico City 1992 / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Two Ranchera songs / José Alfredo Jiménez and Cuco Sanchez -- Ancient civilizations. The origins of the Aztecs / Anonymous -- The cost of courage in Aztec society / Inga Clendinnen -- Popol Vuh / Anonymous -- The meaning of maize for the Maya / J. Eric Thompson -- Omens foretelling the conquest / Anonymous -- Conquest and colony. The Spaniards' entry into Tenochtitlán and Tlatelolco / Anonymous -- The spiritual conquest / Fray Jerónimo de Mendieta -- Why the Indians are dying / Alonso de Zorita -- The Colonial Latifundio / Enrique Forescano -- A Baroque Archbishop-Viceroy / Irving Leonard -- On men's hypocrisy / Sor Juana -- The itching parrot, the priest, and the subdelegate / José Joaquin Fernández de Lizardi -- Trials of the young Republic. The siege of Guanajuato / Lucas Alamán -- Sentiments of the nation / José Maria Morelos -- Plan of Iguala / Agustin de Iturbide -- Women and war in Mexico / Frances Calderón de la Barca -- The glorious revolution of 1844 / Guillermo Prieto -- Décimas dedicated to Santa Anna's let / Anonymous -- War and finance, Mexican style / Juan Bautista Morales -- A conservative profession of faith / The editors of El Tiempo -- Considerations relating to the political and social situation / Mariano Otero -- Liberals and the land / Luis Gonzalez y Gonzalez -- Standard plots and rural resistance / Raymond B. Craib -- Offer of the crown to Maximilian / Junta of Conservative Notables -- A letter from Mexico / Empress Carlotta -- The triumph of the Republic / Benito Juárez -- Pofirio Díaz visits Yucatán / Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost -- Scenes from a lumber camp / B. Traven -- President Díaz, hero of the Americas / James Creelman -- Gift of the Skeletons / Anonymous -- Special section. Mexican history in photographs / John Mraz
  • Revolution. Land and liberty / Ricardo Flores Magón -- Plan of Ayala / Emiliano Zapata and others -- The restoration of the Ejido / Luis Cabrera -- Zapatistas in the Palace / Martin Luis Guzmán -- Mexico has been turned into a hell / William O. Jenkins -- Pancho Villa / John Reed -- La Punitiva / Anonymous -- Pedro Martinez / Oscar Lewis -- Juan the Chamula / Ricardo Pozas -- The Constitution of 1917: articles 27 and 123 -- An Agrarian encounter / Rosalie Evans -- Ode to Cuauhtémoc / Carlos Pellicer -- The socialist abc's / Anonymous -- Mexico must become a nation of institutions and laws / Plutarco Elias Calles -- The formation of the single-party state / Carlos Fuentes -- The rough and tumble career of Pedro Crespo / Gilbert M. Joseph and Allen Wells -- A convention in Zacapu / Salvador Lemus Fernández -- The Agrarian reform in La Laguna / Fernando Benitez -- The oil expropriation / Josephus Daniels -- Cárdenas and the masses / Arturo Anguiano -- The perils of modernity. They gave us the land / Juan Rulfo -- Mexico's crisis / Daniel Cosío Villegas -- Struggles of a Campesino leader / Rubén Jaramillo -- Art and corruption / David Alfaro Siqueiros -- The two faces of Acapulco during the Golden Age / Andrew Sackett -- Mexico / Sid Tepper and Roy c. Bennett -- The dark deeds of "El Negro" Durazo / José González G. -- The sinking city Joel Simon -- Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl / Roberto Vallarino -- Modesta Gómez / Rosario Castellanos
  • From the ruins. The student movement of 1968 / Elena Poniatowska -- El Santo's strange career / Anne Rubenstein -- After the earthquake / Victims' Coordinating Council -- Letters to Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas / Anonymous -- Corazón del Rocanrol / Rubén Martinez -- I don't believe them at all / Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio -- Identity hour / Carlos Monsiváis -- The COCEI of Juchitán, Oaxaca: two documents / Leopoldo de Gyves de la Cruz and COCEI -- Women of Juchitán / Jeffrey W. Rubin -- EZLN demands at the dialogue table / Zapatista Army of National Liberation -- The long journey from despair to hope / Subcomandante Marcos -- T Tzotzil Chronicle / Marián Peres Tsu -- Debtors' revenge / Heather Williams -- Mexicans would not be bought, coerced / Wayne A. Cornelius -- The border and beyond. Plan of San Diego / Anonymous -- The Mexican connection / Rudolfo Acuña -- The Maquiladoras / William Langewiesche -- Dompe Days / Luis Alberto Urrea -- Pedro P., Coyote / Judith Adler Hellman -- There's a party going on in Texas / Anonymous -- Two poems about immigrant life / Pat Mora and Gina Valdés -- The deadly harvest of the Sierra Madre / Alan Weisman -- Two songs about drug smuggling / Salomé Gutiérrez and Paulino Vargas -- The new world border / Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Control code
ocm50004352
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
x, 792 pages
Isbn
9780822330066
Lccn
2002009112
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
9780822330424
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o50004352
  • (OCoLC)50004352
Label
The Mexico reader : history, culture, politics, edited by Gilbert M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson
Link
Publication
Bibliography note
Includes bibliographical references (pages 757-762) and index
Carrier category
volume
Carrier category code
  • nc
Carrier MARC source
rdacarrier
Content category
text
Content type code
  • txt
Content type MARC source
rdacontent
Contents
  • The search for "Lo Mexicano". The Mexican character / Joel Poinsett -- The cosmic race / José Vasconcelos -- The sons of La Malinche / Octavio Paz -- The problem of national culture / Guillermo Bonfil Batalla -- Does it mean anything to be Mexican? / Roger Bartra -- Mexico City 1992 / Alma Guillermoprieto -- Two Ranchera songs / José Alfredo Jiménez and Cuco Sanchez -- Ancient civilizations. The origins of the Aztecs / Anonymous -- The cost of courage in Aztec society / Inga Clendinnen -- Popol Vuh / Anonymous -- The meaning of maize for the Maya / J. Eric Thompson -- Omens foretelling the conquest / Anonymous -- Conquest and colony. The Spaniards' entry into Tenochtitlán and Tlatelolco / Anonymous -- The spiritual conquest / Fray Jerónimo de Mendieta -- Why the Indians are dying / Alonso de Zorita -- The Colonial Latifundio / Enrique Forescano -- A Baroque Archbishop-Viceroy / Irving Leonard -- On men's hypocrisy / Sor Juana -- The itching parrot, the priest, and the subdelegate / José Joaquin Fernández de Lizardi -- Trials of the young Republic. The siege of Guanajuato / Lucas Alamán -- Sentiments of the nation / José Maria Morelos -- Plan of Iguala / Agustin de Iturbide -- Women and war in Mexico / Frances Calderón de la Barca -- The glorious revolution of 1844 / Guillermo Prieto -- Décimas dedicated to Santa Anna's let / Anonymous -- War and finance, Mexican style / Juan Bautista Morales -- A conservative profession of faith / The editors of El Tiempo -- Considerations relating to the political and social situation / Mariano Otero -- Liberals and the land / Luis Gonzalez y Gonzalez -- Standard plots and rural resistance / Raymond B. Craib -- Offer of the crown to Maximilian / Junta of Conservative Notables -- A letter from Mexico / Empress Carlotta -- The triumph of the Republic / Benito Juárez -- Pofirio Díaz visits Yucatán / Channing Arnold and Frederick J. Tabor Frost -- Scenes from a lumber camp / B. Traven -- President Díaz, hero of the Americas / James Creelman -- Gift of the Skeletons / Anonymous -- Special section. Mexican history in photographs / John Mraz
  • Revolution. Land and liberty / Ricardo Flores Magón -- Plan of Ayala / Emiliano Zapata and others -- The restoration of the Ejido / Luis Cabrera -- Zapatistas in the Palace / Martin Luis Guzmán -- Mexico has been turned into a hell / William O. Jenkins -- Pancho Villa / John Reed -- La Punitiva / Anonymous -- Pedro Martinez / Oscar Lewis -- Juan the Chamula / Ricardo Pozas -- The Constitution of 1917: articles 27 and 123 -- An Agrarian encounter / Rosalie Evans -- Ode to Cuauhtémoc / Carlos Pellicer -- The socialist abc's / Anonymous -- Mexico must become a nation of institutions and laws / Plutarco Elias Calles -- The formation of the single-party state / Carlos Fuentes -- The rough and tumble career of Pedro Crespo / Gilbert M. Joseph and Allen Wells -- A convention in Zacapu / Salvador Lemus Fernández -- The Agrarian reform in La Laguna / Fernando Benitez -- The oil expropriation / Josephus Daniels -- Cárdenas and the masses / Arturo Anguiano -- The perils of modernity. They gave us the land / Juan Rulfo -- Mexico's crisis / Daniel Cosío Villegas -- Struggles of a Campesino leader / Rubén Jaramillo -- Art and corruption / David Alfaro Siqueiros -- The two faces of Acapulco during the Golden Age / Andrew Sackett -- Mexico / Sid Tepper and Roy c. Bennett -- The dark deeds of "El Negro" Durazo / José González G. -- The sinking city Joel Simon -- Ciudad Nezahualcóyotl / Roberto Vallarino -- Modesta Gómez / Rosario Castellanos
  • From the ruins. The student movement of 1968 / Elena Poniatowska -- El Santo's strange career / Anne Rubenstein -- After the earthquake / Victims' Coordinating Council -- Letters to Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas / Anonymous -- Corazón del Rocanrol / Rubén Martinez -- I don't believe them at all / Maldita Vecindad y los Hijos del Quinto Patio -- Identity hour / Carlos Monsiváis -- The COCEI of Juchitán, Oaxaca: two documents / Leopoldo de Gyves de la Cruz and COCEI -- Women of Juchitán / Jeffrey W. Rubin -- EZLN demands at the dialogue table / Zapatista Army of National Liberation -- The long journey from despair to hope / Subcomandante Marcos -- T Tzotzil Chronicle / Marián Peres Tsu -- Debtors' revenge / Heather Williams -- Mexicans would not be bought, coerced / Wayne A. Cornelius -- The border and beyond. Plan of San Diego / Anonymous -- The Mexican connection / Rudolfo Acuña -- The Maquiladoras / William Langewiesche -- Dompe Days / Luis Alberto Urrea -- Pedro P., Coyote / Judith Adler Hellman -- There's a party going on in Texas / Anonymous -- Two poems about immigrant life / Pat Mora and Gina Valdés -- The deadly harvest of the Sierra Madre / Alan Weisman -- Two songs about drug smuggling / Salomé Gutiérrez and Paulino Vargas -- The new world border / Guillermo Gómez-Peña
Control code
ocm50004352
Dimensions
25 cm.
Extent
x, 792 pages
Isbn
9780822330066
Lccn
2002009112
Media category
unmediated
Media MARC source
rdamedia
Media type code
  • n
Other control number
9780822330424
Other physical details
illustrations, maps
System control number
  • (Sirsi) o50004352
  • (OCoLC)50004352

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