Author: Lynn V. Foster
Publisher: Fielding Worldwide
ISBN: 9781569520420
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Over the past 15 years, Lynn and Larry Foster have lived and traveled in Mexico. Here the Fosters blend their experience as university lecturers and authors on Hispanic studies and Mayan culture with their love for the Mexican people to create an in-depth guide to the culture and mysteries of Mexico.
Fielding's Mexico 1995
Author: Lynn V. Foster
Publisher: Fielding Worldwide
ISBN: 9781569520420
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Over the past 15 years, Lynn and Larry Foster have lived and traveled in Mexico. Here the Fosters blend their experience as university lecturers and authors on Hispanic studies and Mayan culture with their love for the Mexican people to create an in-depth guide to the culture and mysteries of Mexico.
Publisher: Fielding Worldwide
ISBN: 9781569520420
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 834
Book Description
Over the past 15 years, Lynn and Larry Foster have lived and traveled in Mexico. Here the Fosters blend their experience as university lecturers and authors on Hispanic studies and Mayan culture with their love for the Mexican people to create an in-depth guide to the culture and mysteries of Mexico.
Fielding's Mexico
Author: Lynn V. Foster
Publisher: Fielding Worldwide
ISBN: 9781569521502
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Publisher: Fielding Worldwide
ISBN: 9781569521502
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 880
Book Description
Fielding, Wieland, Goethe and the Rise of the Novel
Author: Guy Stern
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Among the notable contributions that writers from German speaking countries have rendered to world literature the concept and creation of the Bildungsroman, the Novel of Development, ranks high. The narrative of a young man's or woman's slow and often circuitous path to his or her personal destiny and societal role found numerous imitators. They obviously answered a need in modernity, when the unique individuality of all men and women were being recognized and respected. The English novel of the eighteenth century, and in particular Fielding with his Tom Jones, during a time of the rising bourgeoisie, provided Wieland, Goethe and other German writers with important building blocks which they, in turn, reshaped and varied, as the modern Bildungsroman was being born. Years later it would return to England, so that another scholar could coin the phrase of « Wilhelm Meister and his English kinsmen. In tracing one aspect of the inter-relatedness of world cultures and literature, the book which - in its original form - was presented as the author's Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University in 1953, makes its delayed but very timely contribution to the concept of cultural globalisation.
Publisher: Peter Lang Publishing
ISBN:
Category : Literary Criticism
Languages : en
Pages : 154
Book Description
Among the notable contributions that writers from German speaking countries have rendered to world literature the concept and creation of the Bildungsroman, the Novel of Development, ranks high. The narrative of a young man's or woman's slow and often circuitous path to his or her personal destiny and societal role found numerous imitators. They obviously answered a need in modernity, when the unique individuality of all men and women were being recognized and respected. The English novel of the eighteenth century, and in particular Fielding with his Tom Jones, during a time of the rising bourgeoisie, provided Wieland, Goethe and other German writers with important building blocks which they, in turn, reshaped and varied, as the modern Bildungsroman was being born. Years later it would return to England, so that another scholar could coin the phrase of « Wilhelm Meister and his English kinsmen. In tracing one aspect of the inter-relatedness of world cultures and literature, the book which - in its original form - was presented as the author's Ph.D. thesis at Columbia University in 1953, makes its delayed but very timely contribution to the concept of cultural globalisation.
Hidden Chicano Cinema
Author: A. Gabriel Meléndez
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813561086
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Hidden Chicano Cinema examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others sought to possess at the dawn of early filmmaking, a disposition stretching from the silent era to today as filmmakers screen their fantasies of what they wished the Southwest Borderlands to be. The book highlights “film moments” in this region’s history including the “filmic turn” ushered in by Chicano/a filmmakers who created new ways to represent their community and region. A. Gabriel Meléndez narrates the drama, intrigue, and politics of these moments and accounts for the specific cinematic practices and the sociocultural detail that explains how the camera itself brought filmmakers and their subjects to unexpected encounters on and off the screen. Such films as Adventures in Kit Carson Land, The Rattlesnake, and Red Sky at Morning, among others, provide examples of movies that have both educated and misinformed us about a place that remains a “distant locale” in the mind of most film audiences.
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
ISBN: 0813561086
Category : Performing Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
Hidden Chicano Cinema examines how New Mexico, situated within the boundaries of the United States, became a stand-in for the exotic non-western world that tourists, artists, scientists, and others sought to possess at the dawn of early filmmaking, a disposition stretching from the silent era to today as filmmakers screen their fantasies of what they wished the Southwest Borderlands to be. The book highlights “film moments” in this region’s history including the “filmic turn” ushered in by Chicano/a filmmakers who created new ways to represent their community and region. A. Gabriel Meléndez narrates the drama, intrigue, and politics of these moments and accounts for the specific cinematic practices and the sociocultural detail that explains how the camera itself brought filmmakers and their subjects to unexpected encounters on and off the screen. Such films as Adventures in Kit Carson Land, The Rattlesnake, and Red Sky at Morning, among others, provide examples of movies that have both educated and misinformed us about a place that remains a “distant locale” in the mind of most film audiences.
Mexico
Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : Labor
Languages : en
Pages : 64
Book Description
Forthcoming Books
Author: Rose Arny
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2180
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 2180
Book Description
Fielding's Mexico 1996
Author: Lynn V. Foster
Publisher: Fielding Worldwide
ISBN: 9781569520925
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
More than sombreros, mariachis, and margueritas, Fielding's updated guide to Mexico provides all the inside facts about this stunning and captivating travel destination. From shopping, dining, and resorts to history and cultural information, this guide has it all, including complete listings for more than 2,200 hotels, restaurants, and attractions. 15 photos. 52 maps.
Publisher: Fielding Worldwide
ISBN: 9781569520925
Category : Travel
Languages : en
Pages : 800
Book Description
More than sombreros, mariachis, and margueritas, Fielding's updated guide to Mexico provides all the inside facts about this stunning and captivating travel destination. From shopping, dining, and resorts to history and cultural information, this guide has it all, including complete listings for more than 2,200 hotels, restaurants, and attractions. 15 photos. 52 maps.
Murder and Politics in Mexico
Author: Sara Schatz
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441980687
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Murder and Politics in Mexico studies the causes of political killings in Mexico’s liberalization-democratization within the larger context of political repression. Mexico’s democratization process has entailed a little known but highly significant cost of human lives in pre- and post-election violence. The majority of these crimes remain in a state of impunity: in other words, no person had been charged with the crime and/or no investigation of it had occurred. This has several consequences for Mexican politics: when the level of violence is extreme and when political killings that are systematic and invasive are involved, this could indicate a real fracture in the democratic system. This book analyzes several dimensions regarding impunity and political crime, more specifically, the political killings of members of the PRD in the post-1988 period in Mexico. The main argument proposed in this book is that impunity for political killings is a structured system requiring one central precondition, namely the failure of the legal system to function as a system of restraint for killings. Dr Schatz’s research finds that political assassinations are indeed rational, targeted actions but they do not occur within an institutional vacuum. Political assassinations are calculated strategies of action aimed at eliminating political rivals. As a form of interpersonal violence, political assassination involves direct or implied authorization from political leaders, the availability of assassins for hire and the willingness of some political leaders to utilize them against political opponents, and violent interactions between political parties combined with judicial system ineffectiveness. A corrupt legal system facilitates the use of political assassination and explains the persistence of impunity for political murder over time. To reduce political violence in the transition to electoral democracy, specific institutional conditions, namely a structured system of impunity for murder, must be overcome.
Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media
ISBN: 1441980687
Category : Social Science
Languages : en
Pages : 255
Book Description
Murder and Politics in Mexico studies the causes of political killings in Mexico’s liberalization-democratization within the larger context of political repression. Mexico’s democratization process has entailed a little known but highly significant cost of human lives in pre- and post-election violence. The majority of these crimes remain in a state of impunity: in other words, no person had been charged with the crime and/or no investigation of it had occurred. This has several consequences for Mexican politics: when the level of violence is extreme and when political killings that are systematic and invasive are involved, this could indicate a real fracture in the democratic system. This book analyzes several dimensions regarding impunity and political crime, more specifically, the political killings of members of the PRD in the post-1988 period in Mexico. The main argument proposed in this book is that impunity for political killings is a structured system requiring one central precondition, namely the failure of the legal system to function as a system of restraint for killings. Dr Schatz’s research finds that political assassinations are indeed rational, targeted actions but they do not occur within an institutional vacuum. Political assassinations are calculated strategies of action aimed at eliminating political rivals. As a form of interpersonal violence, political assassination involves direct or implied authorization from political leaders, the availability of assassins for hire and the willingness of some political leaders to utilize them against political opponents, and violent interactions between political parties combined with judicial system ineffectiveness. A corrupt legal system facilitates the use of political assassination and explains the persistence of impunity for political murder over time. To reduce political violence in the transition to electoral democracy, specific institutional conditions, namely a structured system of impunity for murder, must be overcome.
Elites, Masses, and the Struggle for Democracy in Mexico
Author: Sara Schatz
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313028672
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
In this book, a new general model of delayed transitions to democracy is proposed and used to analyze Mexico's transition to democracy. This model attempts to explain the slow, gradual dynamics of change characteristic of delayed transitions to democracy and is developed in a way that makes it generalizable to other regional contexts. Utilizing both qualitative and quantitative data based on an original data set of forty thousand individual interviews, Schatz analyzes how the historical authoritarian corporate shaping of interests and forms of political consciousness has fractured the social base of the democratic opposition and inhibited democratizing social action. Using comparative cases of delayed transitions to democracy, the author's conclusions challenge and improve upon current theories of democratization. In elaborating a model for the delayed transition to democracy, the author argues that the emphasis on transformative industrialism in both political modernization and class-analytic theories of social bases of democratization is modeled too closely on the western European process of democratization to allow a full explanation of the case of Mexico's transition to democracy. In addition, she argues that a delayed transitions model provides a more adequate explanation of gradual transitions to democracy because such a model builds on a the insights of structural theories regarding the social bases of anti-authoritarian mobilization. To support the delayed transitions model, Schatz compares Mexico with Taiwan and Tanzania, countries also characterized by delayed transitions to democracy in the late twentieth century. This important book fills a considerable gap in the literature on democratization at the end of the century.
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
ISBN: 0313028672
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 144
Book Description
In this book, a new general model of delayed transitions to democracy is proposed and used to analyze Mexico's transition to democracy. This model attempts to explain the slow, gradual dynamics of change characteristic of delayed transitions to democracy and is developed in a way that makes it generalizable to other regional contexts. Utilizing both qualitative and quantitative data based on an original data set of forty thousand individual interviews, Schatz analyzes how the historical authoritarian corporate shaping of interests and forms of political consciousness has fractured the social base of the democratic opposition and inhibited democratizing social action. Using comparative cases of delayed transitions to democracy, the author's conclusions challenge and improve upon current theories of democratization. In elaborating a model for the delayed transition to democracy, the author argues that the emphasis on transformative industrialism in both political modernization and class-analytic theories of social bases of democratization is modeled too closely on the western European process of democratization to allow a full explanation of the case of Mexico's transition to democracy. In addition, she argues that a delayed transitions model provides a more adequate explanation of gradual transitions to democracy because such a model builds on a the insights of structural theories regarding the social bases of anti-authoritarian mobilization. To support the delayed transitions model, Schatz compares Mexico with Taiwan and Tanzania, countries also characterized by delayed transitions to democracy in the late twentieth century. This important book fills a considerable gap in the literature on democratization at the end of the century.
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Author:
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1852
Book Description
Publisher:
ISBN:
Category : American literature
Languages : en
Pages : 1852
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