Essays in Twentieth-century New Mexico History

Essays in Twentieth-century New Mexico History PDF Author: Judith Boyce DeMark
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826314833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
This volume supplements the standard accounts of New Mexico history and will reward readers seeking to understand the complex nature of contemporary New Mexico.

Essays in Twentieth-century New Mexico History

Essays in Twentieth-century New Mexico History PDF Author: Judith Boyce DeMark
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826314833
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 276

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Book Description
This volume supplements the standard accounts of New Mexico history and will reward readers seeking to understand the complex nature of contemporary New Mexico.

Larger Than Life

Larger Than Life PDF Author: Ferenc Morton Szasz
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826338839
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 322

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Book Description
Larger than Life offers eleven essays that touch on New Mexico's history through its people, places, and events.

The Contested Homeland

The Contested Homeland PDF Author: David Maciel
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826321992
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 346

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Book Description
Studies territorial and rural New Mexico in the nineteenth century, the struggle for statehood, Nuevomexicano politics, immigration, urban issues in the twentieth century, the role of Spanish in education, ethnic identity, and the Chicano movement.

Telling New Mexico

Telling New Mexico PDF Author: Marta Weigle
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 0890135797
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 732

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Book Description
This extensive volume presents New Mexico history from its prehistoric beginnings to the present in essays and articles by fifty prominent historians and scholars representing various disciplines including history, anthropology, Native American studies, and Chicano studies. Contributors include Rick Hendricks, John L. Kessell, Peter Iverson, Rina Swentzell, Sylvia Rodriguez, William deBuys, Robert J. Tórrez, Malcolm Ebright, Herman Agoyo, and Paula Gunn Allen, among many others.

Populism in Twentieth Century Mexico

Populism in Twentieth Century Mexico PDF Author: Amelia M. Kiddle
Publisher: University of Arizona Press
ISBN: 0816550131
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 320

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Book Description
Mexican presidents Lázaro Cárdenas (1934–1940) and Luis Echeverría (1970–1976) used populist politics in an effort to obtain broad-based popular support for their presidential goals. In spite of differences in administrative plans, both aimed to close political divisions within society, extend government programs to those on the margins of national life, and prevent foreign ideologies and practices from disrupting domestic politics. As different as they were in political style, both relied on appealing to the public through mass media, clothing styles, and music. This volume brings together twelve original essays that explore the concept of populism in twentieth century Mexico. Contributors analyze the presidencies of two of the century’s most clearly populist figures, evaluating them against each other and in light of other Latin American and Mexican populist leaders. In order to examine both positive and negative effects of populist political styles, contributors also show how groups as diverse as wild yam pickers in 1970s Oaxaca and intellectuals in 1930s Mexico City had access to and affected government projects. The chapters on the Echeverría presidency are written by contributors at the forefront of emerging scholarship on this topic and demonstrate new approaches to this critical period in Mexican history. Through comparisons to Echeverría, contributors also shed new light on the Cárdenas presidency, suggesting fresh areas of investigation into the work of Mexico’s quintessentially populist leader. Ranging in approach from environmental history to labor history, the essays in this volume present a complex picture of twentieth century populism in Mexico.

The Spell of New Mexico

The Spell of New Mexico PDF Author: Tony Hillerman
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826307767
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 118

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Book Description
Famous writers tell of the fascination of New Mexico.

Coronado's Land

Coronado's Land PDF Author: Marc Simmons
Publisher: UNM Press
ISBN: 9780826317025
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 204

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Book Description
At last available in paperback, the twenty-five essays collected here re-create everyday activities of the Hispanic people of colonial northern New Mexico. What people wore, when they shopped, how they amused themselves these are but a few of the commonplace activities considered here. In reconstructing the daily routines of domestic life and work habits Simmons captures the precariousness of lives threatened by drought, crop failure, Apache raids, and accidents. Simmons's essays permit us to imagine what people long ago thought and felt, which is a considerable accomplishment. But he doesn't stop there: the final section of this volume offers a glimpse of the historian at work. Entitled "Reading History," these essays introduce three late eighteenth-century documents and provide readers with a primer in understanding economic and social problems of the past.

New Mexico

New Mexico PDF Author: Richard Melzer
Publisher: Gibbs Smith
ISBN: 1423616332
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 339

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Book Description
A pictorial celebration of New Mexico's history and landscape. In celebration of New Mexico's statehood centenial, Richard Melzer focuses on the various social and political elements that have made the Land of Enchantment what it is today. Filled with images that document the past hundred years, New Mexico is a photographic delight accompanied by brief insightful essays that leave the reader in no doubt of a history that is both imposing and exciting in its scope. This book is also an official product of the state's centennial celebration. Richard Anthony Melzer is a professor of history at the University of New Mexico Valencia Campus. He is a former president of the Historical Society of New Mexico and is the author of many books and articles on twentieth-century New Mexico history.

The History of the Future

The History of the Future PDF Author: Edward McPherson
Publisher: Coffee House Press
ISBN: 156689476X
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 205

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Book Description
What does it mean to think about Dallas in relationship to Dallas? In The History of the Future, McPherson reexamines American places and the space between history, experience, and myth. Private streets, racism, and the St. Louis World’s Fair; fracking for oil and digging for dinosaurs in North Dakota boomtowns—Americana slides into apocalypse in these essays, revealing us to ourselves.

I Speak of the City

I Speak of the City PDF Author: Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
ISBN: 0226792730
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 529

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In this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today. Through a kaleidoscope of expository forms, I Speak of the City connects the realms of literature, architecture, music, popular language, art, and public health to investigate the city in a variety of contexts: as a living history textbook, as an expression of the state, as a modernist capital, as a laboratory, and as language. Tenorio’s formal imagination allows the reader to revel in the free-flowing richness of his narratives, opening startling new vistas onto the urban experience. From art to city planning, from epidemiology to poetry, this book challenges the conventional wisdom about both Mexico City and the turn-of-the-century world to which it belonged. And by engaging directly with the rise of modernism and the cultural experiences of such personalities as Hart Crane, Mina Loy, and Diego Rivera, I Speak of the City will find an enthusiastic audience across the disciplines.