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In the years before the Mexican Revolution, Mexico is ruled by a tiny elite that apes European culture, grows rich from foreign investment, and prizes racial purity. The vast majority of Mexicans, who are native or of mixed native and Spanish blood, are politically powerless and slowly starving to death. Presiding over this corrupt system is Don Porfirio Díaz, the ruthless and inscrutable president of the Republic.
Against this backdrop, The City...
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Mexico in 1914. On the verge of a bloody civil war that's spiraling out of control a place where only real men survive an officer for the US War Department, Myles Adams knows all about keeping a cool head. And he's just the man who can help his former partner-in-arms Stewart Cook rescue his soon-to-be fiancée, Alexia Garcia, from rebel forces. But once Alexia is safe in hand, the two Americans find themselves in even greater danger. On the run from...
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Vintage Espanol, una division de Penguin Random House LLC
Pub. Date
2015.
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485 pages ; 21 cm
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Español
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En Linares, al norte del pas̕, con la Revolucin̤ mexicana como teln̤ de fondo... Un buen da̕, la vieja nana de la familia Morales abandona sorpresivamente un reposo que pareca̕ eterno para perderse en el monte. Cuando la encuentran, sostiene dos pequeǫs bultos, uno en cada brazo: de un lado un beb ďeforme y del otro un panal de abejas. Ante la insistencia de la nana por conservar y cuidar al pequeǫ, la familia decide adoptarlo....
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W.W. Norton
Pub. Date
c1993
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xxi, 393 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
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English
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Very readable and engaging summary of US involvement in early stages of the Mexican Revolution. Enlightening for new students, but adds little new information for scholars--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.
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Maverick Books, Trinity University Press
Pub. Date
[2020]
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xvii, 270 pages : illustrations ; 21 cm
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English
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"This book celebrates the women of early Texas and Mexico who refused to walk a traditional path. The anthology embraces an expansive definition of the word revolutionary by looking at female role models and subversives from the last century and who stood up for their visions and ideals and continue to stand for them today. Eighteen portraits provide readers with a glimpse into each figure's life and place in history." -- Amazon.com
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Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
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ix, 350 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"From bestselling author Jeff Guinn, the dramatic story of how U.S.-Mexico border tensions erupted into open warfare in 1916, as a U.S. military expedition crossed the border to try to capture Mexican guerrilla Pancho Villa -- a military incursion whose effects still haunt the border region to this day"--
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University of Nebraska Press
Pub. Date
[2021]
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xxiv, 139 pages : illustrations, maps ; 23 cm
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English
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"The Aimless Life is a historical memoir that tells the story of Leonard Worcester, Jr. and provides a clear example of the capitalist development of the American West and borderlands regions in the second half of the nineteenth century and early twentieth century"--
15) Viva Zapata!
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Twentieth Century-Fox
Pub. Date
[2013]
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1 videodisc (113 min.) : sound., black and white ; 4 3/4 in.
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English
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The life and times of the legendary Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata are brought to the screen in Darryl F. Zanuck's powerful production of John Steinbeck's screenplay.
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University of New Mexico Press
Pub. Date
2017
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xii, 219 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
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English
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"More than just a civil war, the Mexican Revolution in 1910 triggered hostilities along the border between Mexico and the United States. In particular, the decade following the revolution saw a dramatic rise in the lynching of ethnic Mexicans in Texas. This book argues that ethnic and racial tension brought on by the fighting in the borderland made Anglo-Texans feel justified in their violent actions against Mexicans. They were able to use...
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"Historian Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this ... narrative of revolution in the borderlands. [This book] tells the ... story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a ... radical named Ricardo Flores Magón, the magonistas were a ... band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who organized thousands of Mexican workers--and American dissidents--to...
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