Author: Dan StanislawskiPublisher:
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Languages : en
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The Anatomy of Eleven Towns in Michoacán
Author: Dan StanislawskiAnatomy of Eleven Towns in Michoacan
Author: Dan StanislawskiPublisher:
ISBN: 9780837110295
Category :
Languages : en
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The Anatomy of Eleven Towns in Michoacán
Author: Dan StanislawskiPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 029276930X
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 84
Book Description
In this book, Dan Stanislawski studies the geography of various small towns in one Mexican state. He discusses the factors—landscape, buildings, culture groups, and so forth—that create a unique personality for each of these towns.
The Mexican Border Cities
Author: Daniel D. ArreolaPublisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 9780816514410
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 284
Book Description
From Matamoros to Tijuana, Mexican border cities have long evoked for their neighbors to the north images of cheap tourist playgrounds and, more recently, industrial satellites of American industry. These sensationalized and simplified perceptions fail to convey the complexity and diversity of urban form and function—and of cultural personality—that characterize these places. The Mexican Border Cities draws on extensive field research to examine eighteen settlements along the 2,000-mile border, ranging from towns of less than 10,000 people to dynamic metropolises of nearly a million. The authors chronicle the cities' growth and compare their urban structure, analyzing them in terms of tourist districts, commercial landscapes, residential areas, and industrial and transportation quarters. Arreola and Curtis contend that, despite their proximity to the United States, the border cities are fundamentally Mexican places, as distinguished by their cultural landscapes, including town plan, land-use pattern, and building fabric. Their study, richly illustrated with over 75 maps and photographs, offers a provocative and insightful interpretation of the geographic anatomy and personality of these fascinating—and rapidly changing—communities.
The Geography of Central America and Mexico
Author: Thomas A. RumneyPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN: 0810886367
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 199
Book Description
Connecting the massive landscapes of North and South America are Mexico and Central America. An area of fascination and study for geographers and scholars from around the world, for millennia these lands and people have played important roles in the discoveries and distributions of civilizations, resources, and nations. These regions have stimulated a large amount of research and publications across the sub-disciplines of geography. The Geography of Central America and Mexico: A Scholarly Guide and Bibliography by Thomas A. Rumney collects, organizes, and presents as many of these publications as possible to encourage efforts in the teaching, study, and continuing scholarship of the geography of this area, which includes Mexico, Belize, Guatemala, Honduras, El Salvador, Nicaragua, Costa Rica, and Panama. Beginning with the region as a whole, each chapter that follows--one per nation--is divided by the specific sub-disciplines of geography: cultural, social, economic, historical, physical and environmental, political, and urban. Each section is further divided by document type: atlases, books, book chapters, articles from scholarly journals, master's theses, and doctoral dissertations. Although the majority of entries recorded focus on English-language works, selected entries written in Spanish, as well as French, German, and other languages, are included (with entries' titles translated into English and noted accordingly).
The Relación de Michoacán (1539-1541) and the Politics of Representation in Colonial Mexico
Author: Angélica Jimena Afanador-PujolPublisher: University of Texas Press
ISBN: 1477302395
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 300
Book Description
The Relación de Michoacán (1539–1541) is one of the earliest surviving illustrated manuscripts from colonial Mexico. Commissioned by the Spanish viceroy Antonio de Mendoza, the Relación was produced by a Franciscan friar together with indigenous noble informants and anonymous native artists who created its forty-four illustrations. To this day, the Relación remains the primary source for studying the pre-Columbian practices and history of the people known as Tarascans or P'urhépecha. However, much remains to be said about how the Relación's colonial setting shaped its final form. By looking at the Relación in its colonial context, this study reveals how it presented the indigenous collaborators a unique opportunity to shape European perceptions of them while settling conflicting agendas, outshining competing ethnic groups, and carving a place for themselves in the new colonial society. Through archival research and careful visual analysis, Angélica Afanador-Pujol provides a new and fascinating account that situates the manuscript's images within the colonial conflicts that engulfed the indigenous collaborators. These conflicts ranged from disputes over political posts among indigenous factions to labor and land disputes against Spanish newcomers. Afanador-Pujol explores how these tensions are physically expressed in the manuscript's production and in its many contradictions between text and images, as well as in numerous emendations to the images. By studying representations of justice, landscape, conquest narratives, and genealogy within the Relación, Afanador-Pujol clearly demonstrates the visual construction of identity, its malleability, and its political possibilities.
The Cambridge History of the Native Peoples of the Americas
Author: Bruce G. TriggerPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 9780521652049
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 484
Book Description
Library holds volume 2, part 2 only.
The City in Cultural Context
Author: John AgnewPublisher: Routledge
ISBN: 1135667152
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 322
Book Description
Routledge Library Editions: The City reprints some of the most important works in urban studies published in the last century. For further information on this collection please email [email protected].
Setting the Virgin on Fire
Author: Marjorie BeckerPublisher: Univ of California Press
ISBN: 0520084195
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 210
Book Description
"A major work in the field of Mexican revolutionary and gender studies. Becker is an indefatigable fieldworker; the array and richness of her archival and oral sources is simply astonishing."—Gilbert M. Joseph, author of Revolution from Without
American Geography: Inventory & Prospect
Author: Preston Everett JamesPublisher: Syracuse University Press
ISBN:
Category : Geographers
Languages : en
Pages : 610
Book Description