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Résumé : De la cité préhistorique à la métropole surpeuplée et polluée du XXe siècle, toutes les métamorphoses d'une cité multi-culturelle.

Résumé : Au fil des pages de ce classique de la littérature mexicaine, Jesús Silva Herzog raconte, dans un style vif et enlevant, les principaux événements de la Révolution mexicaine (1910-1917), la première révolution sociale du XXe siècle. Œuvre trépidante faisant une large part aux intrigues et aux retournements qui l’ont ponctué, Histoire de la Révolution mexicaine retrace les faits et gestes des grands personnages de l’époque que sont les dictateurs Porfirio Díaz et Victoriano Huerta et les chefs révolutionnaires Francisco I. Madero, Venustiano Carranza, Álvaro Obregón, Pancho Villa et Emiliano Zapata. L’historien porte une attention particulière aux problèmes économiques et sociaux, notamment le partage des terres et la répression des grèves, qui ont poussé des millions de paysans et d’ouvriers mexicains à la révolte. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : A New Compact History of Mexico es una versión no sólo nueva sino innovadora, ya que sus textos fueron preparados especialmente para esta edición por siete académicos distintos de los autores que escribieron A Compact History of Mexico. Esta obra conserva la intención de ofrecer conocimiento histórico básico de la historia de nuestro país de una manera sintética y accesible a todo público. La primera edición de A Compact History of Mexico es de 1974. Cuarenta años después, El Colegio de México ofrece a los lectores una obra nueva no sólo por los autores que colaboran en ella, sino por su división temática, sus enfoques, sus planteamientos, una cobertura más amplia de la historia nacional y sobre todo por una visión más moderna y mejor fundamentada. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : Today all would agree that Mexico and the United States have never been closer—that the fates of the two republics are inextricably intertwined. It has become an intimate part of life in almost every community in the United States, through immigration, imported produce, business ties, or illegal drugs. It is less a neighbor than a sibling; no matter what our differences, it is intricately a part of our existence. In the fully updated second edition of Mexico: What Everyone Needs to Know®, Roderic Ai Camp gives readers the most essential information about our sister republic to the south. Camp organizes chapters around major themes—security and violence, economic development, foreign relations, the colonial heritage, and more. He asks questions that take us beyond the headlines: Why does Mexico have so much drug violence? What was the impact of the North American Free Trade Agreement? How democratic is Mexico? Who were Benito Juárez and Pancho Villa? What is the PRI (the Institutional Revolutionary Party)? The answers are sometimes surprising. Despite ratification of NAFTA, for example, Mexico has fallen behind Brazil and Chile in economic growth and rates of poverty. Camp explains that lack of labor flexibility, along with low levels of transparency and high levels of corruption, make Mexico less competitive than some other Latin American countries. The drug trade, of course, enhances corruption and feeds on poverty; approximately 450,000 Mexicans now work in this sector. Brisk, clear, and informed, Mexico: What Everyone Needs To Know® offers a valuable primer for anyone interested in the past, present, and future of our neighbor to the South. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : An estimated 60,000 Chinese entered Mexico during the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, constituting Mexico's second-largest foreign ethnic community at the time. The Chinese in Mexico provides a social history of Chinese immigration to and settlement in Mexico in the context of the global Chinese diaspora of the era. Robert Romero argues that Chinese immigrants turned to Mexico as a new land of economic opportunity after the passage of the U.S. Chinese Exclusion Act of 1882. As a consequence of this legislation, Romero claims, Chinese immigrants journeyed to Mexico in order to gain illicit entry into the United States and in search of employment opportunities within Mexico's developing economy. Romero details the development, after 1882, of the "Chinese transnational commercial orbit," a network encompassing China, Latin America, Canada, and the Caribbean, shaped and traveled by entrepreneurial Chinese pursuing commercial opportunities in human smuggling, labor contracting, wholesale merchandising, and small-scale trade. Romero's study is based on a wide array of Mexican and U.S. archival sources. It draws from such quantitative and qualitative sources as oral histories, census records, consular reports, INS interviews, and legal documents. Two sources, used for the first time in this kind of study, provide a comprehensive sociological and historical window into the lives of Chinese immigrants in Mexico during these years: the Chinese Exclusion Act case files of the U.S. Immigration and Naturalization Service and the 1930 Mexican municipal census manuscripts. From these documents, Romero crafts a vividly personal and compelling story of individual lives caught in an extensive network of early transnationalism. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : ¡Tequila! Distilling the Spirit of Mexico traces how and why tequila became and remains Mexico's national drink and symbol. Starting in Mexico's colonial era and tracing the drink's rise through the present day, Marie Sarita Gaytán reveals the formative roles played by some unlikely characters. Although the notorious Pancho Villa was a teetotaler, his image is now plastered across the labels of all manner of tequila producers—he's even the namesake of a popular brand. Mexican films from the 1940s and 50s, especially Western melodramas, buoyed tequila's popularity at home while World War II caused a spike in sales within the whisky-starved United States. Today, cultural attractions such as Jose Cuervo's Mundo Cuervo and the Tequila Express let visitors insert themselves into the Jaliscan countryside—now a UNESCO-protected World Heritage Site—and relish in the nostalgia of pre-industrial Mexico.

Résumé : Spanning the late Porfiriato to the end of the Cardenista reforms, this is a multifaceted exploration of the production of visual narratives that offered competing interpretations of gender, class, nationalism, and internationalism that came to define modern Mexican identity. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : Matthew Vitz outlines the environmental history and politics of Mexico City as it transformed its original forested, water-rich environment into a smog-infested megacity, showing how the scientific and political disputes over water policy, housing, forestry, and sanitary engineering led to the city's unequal urbanization and environmental decline. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : Les civilisations précolombiennes et le folklore mexicain ont inspiré les Européens. Les différentes contributions s'intéressent aux transferts culturels qui se sont opérés en Espagne, au Portugal et en France afin d'analyser les images, les clichés et les réinterprétations de l'histoire et du patrimoine mexicains.

Résumé : Présentation de 1.172 conquistadores de Mexico réalisée à partir des archives espagnoles et mexicaines, ainsi que des protocoles des archives des notaires de Mexico et des grandes collections classiques élaborées entre le milieu du 19e siècle et le début du 20e siècle.

Résumé : Historian Isaac Campos combines wide-ranging archival research with the latest scholarship on the social and cultural dimensions of drug-related behavior in this telling of marijuana's remarkable history in Mexico. Introduced in the sixteenth century by the Spanish, cannabis came to Mexico as an industrial fiber and symbol of European empire. But, Campos demonstrates, as it gradually spread to indigenous pharmacopoeias, then prisons and soldiers' barracks, it took on both a Mexican name--marijuana--and identity as a quintessentially "Mexican" drug. A century ago, Mexicans believed that marijuana could instantly trigger madness and violence in its users, and the drug was outlawed nationwide in 1920. Home Grown thus traces the deep roots of the antidrug ideology and prohibitionist policies that anchor the drug-war violence that engulfs Mexico today. Campos also counters the standard narrative of modern drug wars, which casts global drug prohibition as a sort of informal American cultural colonization. Instead, he argues, Mexican ideas were the foundation for notions of "reefer madness" in the United States. This book is an indispensable guide for anyone who hopes to understand the deep and complex origins of marijuana's controversial place in North American history. - Note de l'éditeur

Résumé : Les formes d'association corporative inventées par l'Europe médiévale offrent un cadre juridique et religieux capable d'intégrer colonisés et colonisateurs dans la monarchie catholique. Capitale de la Nouvelle Espagne, Mexico voit s'épanouir pendant trois cents ans ce corporatisme conquérant.

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