Books

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Title Authors Description OpenBook ID
Cuauhtémoc's bones Cuauhtémoc's bones Paul Gillingham In 1949, a Group of Villagers and Amateur Archaeologists Dug Up what they believed to be the body of the last Aztec emperor, Cuauhtémoc, in a remote village in the mountains of central Mexico. State … OL16296600W
Tequila oil Tequila oil Hugh Thomson An account of his first wild adventure in Mexico, which ignited his love for and his subsequent exploration of the country, its people and its history, taking the reader from the badlands of Chihuahu… OL16615039W
Codex Chimalpahin Codex Chimalpahin Domingo Francisco de San Antón Muñón Chimalpahin Cuauhtlehuanitzin "Essential two-volume translations of recently discovered examples of Chimalpahin's work held by the Bible Society Library at Cambridge Univ., given in parallel with transcriptions of Nahuatl texts. … OL1737594W
Ancient Mexico Ancient Mexico Jacqueline Phillips Lathrop "Updated and expanded version of introductory text that devotes a chapter to each major time period: Paleo-Indian/Archaic, preclassic,classic, and postclassic. The Spanish conquest is discussed in th… OL2017823W
Carlos Monsiváis Carlos Monsiváis Linda Egan "This comprehensive study of Monsivais's cronicas is the first book both to offer an analysis of these works and to place Monsivais's work within a theoretical framework that recognizes the importanc… OL2050931W
1519 1519 John Harrison In 1519 an arrogant and unscrupulous man sailed from the Caribbean, with orders to find a missing Spanish expedition. He immediately set about carving himself an empire in modern Mexico, while the go… OL24190433W
Medieval culture and the Mexican American borderlands Medieval culture and the Mexican American borderlands Milo Kearney "The land along the U.S.-Mexican border is often portrayed as the place where two separate cultures meet - or indeed collide. Yet this is not the first meeting of the two cultures, not their first co… OL2920742W
Exits from the labyrinth Exits from the labyrinth Claudio Lomnitz-Adler "Scholarly contribution to the understanding of national culture. First part studies cultural production and ideology in Morelos and in the Huasteca Potosina. Second part focuses on history of legiti… OL822976W