Author: M. Epstein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270689
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1538
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: M. Epstein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270689
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1538
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270689
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1538
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Mexico
Author: Charles Reginald Enock
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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Publisher:
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 540
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The Mexican Guide
Author: Thomas Allibone Janvier
Publisher:
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Publisher:
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 560
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Intimate Frida
Author: Isolda P. Kahlo
Publisher: Cangrejo Editores
ISBN: 958553214X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
A tradition rooted in the mythology of romanticism and its conception of the artist as a cultural hero would want to believe that everything pertaining to the life of a genius has to bear the mark of the sublime. Everything in their lives -gestures, decisions, personality traits, eccentricities, even the most dissonant mistakes- are thus transformed into esthetic substance. We would want their lives to be masterworks, a perfect coherence- and continuity between the work and its creator. Roland Barthes has criticized this conception as a basically bourgeois aberration - the perennial realism of the bourgeois culture, its need to identify the signified with the signifier. And then we learn about the real human dimension of these heroes- their pettiness, narcissism, avariciousness, arbitrariness, and childishness, all of which are no more than their human specificity. We are scandalized; either the work or the figure lies. A harmonious painting, a novel or masterful symphony cannot possibly be the product of a person capable of such spiritual smallness. Then we are left with two choices—to dismiss the work as an essentially hypocritical utterance, or to disqualify the creator as the accidental author of some work that happened to be marvelous but was simply by virtue of a great skill, not supported by an equally admirable human quality.
Publisher: Cangrejo Editores
ISBN: 958553214X
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 403
Book Description
A tradition rooted in the mythology of romanticism and its conception of the artist as a cultural hero would want to believe that everything pertaining to the life of a genius has to bear the mark of the sublime. Everything in their lives -gestures, decisions, personality traits, eccentricities, even the most dissonant mistakes- are thus transformed into esthetic substance. We would want their lives to be masterworks, a perfect coherence- and continuity between the work and its creator. Roland Barthes has criticized this conception as a basically bourgeois aberration - the perennial realism of the bourgeois culture, its need to identify the signified with the signifier. And then we learn about the real human dimension of these heroes- their pettiness, narcissism, avariciousness, arbitrariness, and childishness, all of which are no more than their human specificity. We are scandalized; either the work or the figure lies. A harmonious painting, a novel or masterful symphony cannot possibly be the product of a person capable of such spiritual smallness. Then we are left with two choices—to dismiss the work as an essentially hypocritical utterance, or to disqualify the creator as the accidental author of some work that happened to be marvelous but was simply by virtue of a great skill, not supported by an equally admirable human quality.
The Statesman's Year-Book
Author: Mortimer Epstein
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270700
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Publisher: Springer
ISBN: 0230270700
Category : Political Science
Languages : en
Pages : 1516
Book Description
The classic reference work that provides annually updated information on the countries of the world.
Three Americas
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Category : Latin America
Languages : en
Pages : 216
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Midnight in Mexico
Author: Alfredo Corchado
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143125532
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
One of Time Magazine’s Sixteen Best True Crime Books of All Time A crusading Mexican-American journalist searches for justice and hope in an increasingly violent Mexico In the last decade, more than 100,000 people have been killed or disappeared in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking there is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican-American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juárez, or the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico. One night, Corchado received a tip that he could be the next target of the Zetas, a violent paramilitary group—and that he had twenty-four hours to find out if the threat was true. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man’s quest to report the truth of his country—as he races to save his own life.
Publisher: Penguin
ISBN: 0143125532
Category : Biography & Autobiography
Languages : en
Pages : 306
Book Description
One of Time Magazine’s Sixteen Best True Crime Books of All Time A crusading Mexican-American journalist searches for justice and hope in an increasingly violent Mexico In the last decade, more than 100,000 people have been killed or disappeared in the Mexican drug war, and drug trafficking there is a multibillion-dollar business. In a country where the powerful are rarely scrutinized, noted Mexican-American journalist Alfredo Corchado refuses to shrink from reporting on government corruption, murders in Juárez, or the ruthless drug cartels of Mexico. One night, Corchado received a tip that he could be the next target of the Zetas, a violent paramilitary group—and that he had twenty-four hours to find out if the threat was true. Midnight in Mexico is the story of one man’s quest to report the truth of his country—as he races to save his own life.
The Life and Times of Mexico
Author: Earl Shorris
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039334374X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 801
Book Description
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. "A work of scope and profound insight into the divided soul of Mexico." —History Today The Life and Times of Mexico is a grand narrative driven by 3,000 years of history: the Indian world, the Spanish invasion, Independence, the 1910 Revolution, the tragic lives of workers in assembly plants along the border, and the experiences of millions of Mexicans who live in the United States. Mexico is seen here as if it were a person, but in the Aztec way; the mind, the heart, the winds of life; and on every page there are portraits and stories: artists, shamans, teachers, a young Maya political leader; the rich few and the many poor. Earl Shorris is ingenious at finding ways to tell this story: prostitutes in the Plaza Loreto launch the discussion of economics; we are taken inside two crucial elections as Mexico struggles toward democracy; we watch the creation of a popular "telenovela" and meet the country's greatest living intellectual. The result is a work of magnificent scope and profound insight into the divided soul of Mexico.
Publisher: W. W. Norton & Company
ISBN: 039334374X
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 801
Book Description
A San Francisco Chronicle Best Book of the Year. "A work of scope and profound insight into the divided soul of Mexico." —History Today The Life and Times of Mexico is a grand narrative driven by 3,000 years of history: the Indian world, the Spanish invasion, Independence, the 1910 Revolution, the tragic lives of workers in assembly plants along the border, and the experiences of millions of Mexicans who live in the United States. Mexico is seen here as if it were a person, but in the Aztec way; the mind, the heart, the winds of life; and on every page there are portraits and stories: artists, shamans, teachers, a young Maya political leader; the rich few and the many poor. Earl Shorris is ingenious at finding ways to tell this story: prostitutes in the Plaza Loreto launch the discussion of economics; we are taken inside two crucial elections as Mexico struggles toward democracy; we watch the creation of a popular "telenovela" and meet the country's greatest living intellectual. The result is a work of magnificent scope and profound insight into the divided soul of Mexico.
The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican
Author: Helen Delpar
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817308113
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican traces the evolution of cultural relations between the United States and Mexico from 1920 to 1935.
Publisher: University of Alabama Press
ISBN: 0817308113
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 289
Book Description
The Enormous Vogue of Things Mexican traces the evolution of cultural relations between the United States and Mexico from 1920 to 1935.
A Glimpse of Old Mexico
Author: James Hepburn Wilkins
Publisher:
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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Publisher:
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Category : Mexico
Languages : en
Pages : 134
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