At the dawn of the twentieth century, José Cuervo inherited his family's humble distillery, La Rojeña, in the Tequila Valley. Within a decade, he had transformed it into a complex national enterprise that would become Mexico's leading producer of tequila. Cuervo grew his kingdom of agave by acquiring thousands of acres of estates throughout the valley; he brought electricity and a railroad line to Tequila, so he could reach drinkers across the country. But when the Mexican Revolution erupted, a charge of treason and a death threat against him by Pancho Villa forced Cuervo to flee. His disappearance turned him into an obscure, shadowy historical figure--despite having one of the most famous names in Mexican history.

In Tequila Wars, award-winning author Ted Genoways restores Cuervo to his place as a key player in Mexico's formative period. Before the revolution, Cuervo's acclaim spread worldwide, and once war broke out, Cuervo remained an impresario, kingmaker, and cultural force. In the face of his own government's corruption and the nationalism of his northern neighbors, Cuervo reached American drinkers by establishing Mexico's covert form of cross-border commerce with the United States. As the largest and most important distilleries in the Tequila Valley recognized the threat posed by Mexico's unraveling, Cuervo also lobbied for suspending normal competition in favor of a union of tequila makers--what would become the first Mexican cartel.

With extensive original research, including access to the secret archives of the Cuervo and Sauza families, Genoways follows the violent, unpredictable, and hugely profitable world of tequila through the story of its most successful maker. The first biography of Cuervo, Tequila Wars uncovers the history of the man who would forever change not only the business of tequila, but international relations between Mexico and the United States.

Octavio Paz has long been acknowledged as Mexico's foremost writer and critic. In this international classic, Paz has written one of the most enduring and powerful works ever created on Mexico and its people, character, and culture. Compared to Ortega y Gasset's The Revolt of the Masses for its trenchant analysis, this collection contains his most famous work, The Labyrinth of Solitude, a beautifully written and deeply felt discourse on Mexico's quest for identity that gives us an unequaled look at the country hidden behind the mask. Also included are The Other Mexico, Return to the Labyrinth of Solitude, Mexico and the United States, and The Philanthropic Ogre, all of which develop the themes of the title essay and extend his penetrating commentary to the United States and Latin America.

At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city.

Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city 's cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today--one of the world's leading cultural and financial centers.

In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics: Living in the City, City Characters, Shocks, Crossings, and Ceremonies. What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City's genius loci, its spirit of place.

In this astonishing work of scholarship that reads like an edge-of-your-seat adventure thriller, acclaimed historian Buddy Levy records the last days of the Aztec empire and the two men at the center of an epic clash of cultures perhaps unequaled to this day.

It was a moment unique in human history, the face-to-face meeting between two men from civilizations a world apart. In 1519, Hern n Cort s arrived on the shores of Mexico, determined not only to expand the Spanish empire but to convert the natives to Catholicism and carry off a fortune in gold. That he saw nothing paradoxical in carrying out his intentions by virtually annihilating a proud and accomplished native people is one of the most remarkable and tragic aspects of this unforgettable story. In Tenochtitl n Cort s met his Aztec counterpart, Montezuma: king, divinity, commander of the most powerful military machine in the Americas and ruler of a city whose splendor equaled anything in Europe. Yet in less than two years, Cort s defeated the entire Aztec nation in one of the most astounding battles ever waged. The story of a lost kingdom, a relentless conqueror, and a doomed warrior, Conquistador is history at its most riveting.

2 manuscritos completos en 1 libro

• La historia de México: Una Guía Fascinante de la Historia Mexicana, Desde el Ascenso de Tenochtitlan y el Imperio de Maximiliano hasta la Revolución Mexicana y el Levantamiento Indígena Zapatista
• La Revolución mexicana: Una guía fascinante sobre la guerra civil mexicana y cómo Pancho Villa y Emiliano Zapata tuvieron un impacto en México

Antes de que el país moderno naciera en 1821, el territorio que hoy comprende 32 estados y algunas islas pequeñas estaba habitado por antiguas dinastías y reinos de guerreros, astrónomos, sacerdotes, templos para sacrificios humanos y, sorprendentemente, algunas de las ciudades más grandes del mundo. Se estima que la sagrada ciudad de Chichén Itzá, en la península de Yucatán, en su máximo esplendor fue más grande que París.

La primera parte de este libro incluye:

• La Era de los Imperios
• La Guerra Hispano-Azteca y la Nueva España
• El Nacimiento de una Nación
• De los Salones de Moctezuma...
• La Gran División
• El Imperio Más Hermoso del Mundo
• En los Tiempos de Don Porfirio
• La Revolución Mexicana
• Los Cristeros
• La Segunda Guerra Mundial y el Milagro Mexicano
• Los Dolores de Fin de Siglo
• Y mucho, mucho más!

Segunda parte de este libro, usted:

• El cometa
• El hombre fuerte de las Américas
• Francisco y los espíritus
• La victoria llega demasiado pronto
• El malvado embajador
• Victoriano Huerta
• Dos huracanes
• La Convención de Aguascalientes
• La silla presidencial
• Huerta contraataca
• Los Jinetes del Apocalipsis
• El centauro y el general: la Expedición punitiva de Pershing
• El telegrama de Zimmermann
• Las secuelas
• Y mucho más!

Consiga este libro ahora para aprender más sobre La historia de México y La Revolución mexicana!

Mexico arrives in its eighth edition with a new look and the most recent discoveries. This is the story of the pre-Spanish people of Mexico, who, with their neighbors the Maya, formed some of the most complex societies north of the Andes. Revised and expanded, the book is updated with the latest developments and findings in the field and current terminology.

The new edition includes expanded coverage of Oaxaca, particularly Monte Alba n, one of the earliest cities in Mesoamerica and the center of the Zapotec civilization. Recent research on the Olmecs and the legacy of the Maya offer a wider and more cohesive narrative of Mexico's history. And a fully revised epilogue discusses the survival of indigenous populations in Mexico from the arrival of the Spanish through to the present day.

Mexico has long been recognized as the most readable and authoritative introduction to the region's ancient civilizations. Featuring up-to-date research and, for the first time, full-color illustrations throughout, this book brings to life the vibrant ancient art and architecture of Mesoamerica.

Color your way through Mexico!

Learn and explore all the states of Mexico with delightfully-illustrated maps in this comprehensive coloring book.

Mexico is a land of tropical rain forests, volcanoes, deserts, and beaches as well as a vibrant array of ancient and modern traditions and rich history. Each map features the capital, flag, food and distinguishing highlights such as monuments, archaeological and World Heritage sites, animals, cathedrals and parks. All 31 states plus Mexico City are illustrated on their own unique page. The Mexico Coloring Book is an interactive way for kids (and adults!) to learn about the varied and amazing states that make up Mexico.

Celebrate and learn about Mexico from Aguascalientes to Zacatecas!

This coloring book:

• makes a great gift for birthday or holidays
• can be used by students
• is useful for homeschool
• is rich in detail
• has original and unique illustrations of beautiful plants and animals
• is great for nature lovers

Jen Racine is the author and illustrator of more than a dozen coloring books.

The story of how nineteenth-century European rulers conspired with Mexican conservatives in an outlandish plan to contain the rising US colossus by establishing Old World empire on its doorstep.

The outbreak of the US Civil War provided an unexpected opportunity for political conservatives across continents. On one side were European monarchs. Mere decades after its founding, the United States had become a threat to European hegemony; instability in the United States could be exploited to lay a rival low. Meanwhile, Mexican antidemocrats needed a powerful backer to fend off the republicanism of Benito Juárez. When these two groups found each other, the Second Mexican Empire was born.

Raymond Jonas argues that the Second Mexican Empire, often dismissed as a historical sideshow, is critical to appreciating the globally destabilizing effect of growing US power in the nineteenth century. In 1862, at the behest of Mexican reactionaries and with the initial support of Spain and Britain, Napoleon III of France sent troops into Mexico and installed Austrian archduke Ferdinand Maximilian as an imperial ruler who could resist democracy in North America. But what was supposed to be an easy victory proved a disaster. The French army was routed at the Battle of Puebla, and for the next four years, republican guerrillas bled the would-be empire. When the US Civil War ended, African American troops were dispatched to Mexico to hasten the French withdrawal.

Based on research in five languages and in archives across the globe, Habsburgs on the Rio Grande fundamentally revises narratives of global history. Far more than a footnote, the Second Mexican Empire was at the center of world-historic great-power struggles--a point of inflection in a contest for supremacy that set the terms of twentieth-century rivalry.

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This concise history looks at Mexico from political, economic, and cultural perspectives, portraying Mexico's struggle to break out of the colonial past and assert its viability as a sovereign state in a competitive world. In this third edition, Hamnett adds new material on Mexico's regional and international roles as they have emerged in the twenty-first century, including membership of supra-national organizations (including and moving beyond NAFTA), the Mexican drug war between government officials and gangs, and the immigration and border crises within the United States. He also discusses Mexico's relationship to the outside world, particularly its efforts to broaden the range of political and commercial associations, especially with European countries, the rest of Latin America, and the Pacific Rim through trade agreements with supra-national organizations.

Sab as que los mayas usaban las saunas con fines curativos?

En la ltima d cada o dos, ha habido un aumento de inter s en la historia maya. Esto fue en parte alimentado por la m tica predicci n maya del fin del mundo en 2012, que por un corto per odo de tiempo puso a esta civilizaci n bajo la atenci n de los medios de comunicaci n.

Pero hay mucho m s en su cultura que la idea err nea com n sobre su calendario.

Esta es una de las civilizaciones m s importantes e influyentes de toda la regi n mesoamericana. Los mayas no solo alcanzaron logros en el campo de la astronom a, sino que tambi n alcanzaron logros revolucionarios en la agricultura, la ingenier a y las comunicaciones.

En este nuevo y fascinante libro de historia, descubrir asombrosos hechos poco conocidos sobre los mayas, as como la verdad sobre su notable historia.

Historia Maya: Una fascinante gu a de la civilizaci n, cultura, mitolog a y el impacto de los pueblos mayas en la historia de Mesoam rica: incluye:

• Hallazgos revolucionarios proporcionados por modernas t cnicas de detecci n arqueol gica
• Una simple explicaci n de la civilizaci n maya y su ubicaci n
• Descubrimientos fascinantes del arte maya
• Notable perspicacia en el gobierno y la sociedad maya
• Una sorprendente exploraci n de la vida cotidiana de los mayas
• Una visi n asombrosa de los mitos, leyendas, dioses y creencias del pueblo maya, incluyendo hallazgos impactantes relacionados con el sacrificio humano
• La guerra
• La conquista espa ola y su impacto
• Desde la poca colonial hasta hoy
• Y mucho, mucho m s

Obtenga este libro ahora para aprender m s sobre la historia maya

The Mexican Revolution defined the socivsilitical experience of those living in Mexico in the twentieth century. Its subsequent legacy has provoked debate between those who interpret the ongoing myth of the Revolution and those who adopt the more middle-of-the-road reality of the regime after 1940.

Taking account of these divergent interpretations, this Very Short Introduction offers a succinct narrative and analysis of the Revolution. Using carefully considered sources, Alan Knight addresses the causes of the upheaval, before outlining the armed conflict between 1910 and 1920, explaining how a durable regime was consolidated in the 1920s, and summing up the social reforms of the Revolution, which culminated in the radical years of the 1930s. Along the way, Knight places the conflict alongside other 'great' revolutions, and compares Mexico with the Latin American countries that avoided the violent upheaval.

ABOUT THE SERIES: The Very Short Introductions series from Oxford University Press contains hundreds of titles in almost every subject area. These pocket-sized books are the perfect way to get ahead in a new subject quickly. Our expert authors combine facts, analysis, perspective, new ideas, and enthusiasm to make interesting and challenging topics highly readable.

At once intimate and wide-ranging, and as enthralling, surprising, and vivid as the place itself, this is a uniquely eye-opening tour of one of the great metropolises of the world, and its largest Spanish-speaking city.

Horizontal Vertigo: The title refers to the fear of ever-impending earthquakes that led Mexicans to build their capital city outward rather than upward. With the perspicacity of a keenly observant flaneur, Juan Villoro wanders through Mexico City seemingly without a plan, describing people, places, and things while brilliantly drawing connections among them. In so doing he reveals, in all its multitudinous glory, the vicissitudes and triumphs of the city 's cultural, political, and social history: from indigenous antiquity to the Aztec period, from the Spanish conquest to Mexico City today--one of the world's leading cultural and financial centers.

In this deeply iconoclastic book, Villoro organizes his text around a recurring series of topics: Living in the City, City Characters, Shocks, Crossings, and Ceremonies. What he achieves, miraculously, is a stunning, intriguingly coherent meditation on Mexico City's genius loci, its spirit of place.

The Mexican drug trade has inspired prejudiced narratives of a war between north and south, white and brown; between noble cops and vicious kingpins, corrupt politicians and powerful cartels. In this first comprehensive history of the trade, historian Benjamin T. Smith tells the real story of how and why this one-peaceful industry turned violent. He uncovers its origins and explains how this illicit business essentially built modern Mexico, affecting everything from agriculture to medicine to economics--and the country's all-important relationship with the United States.

Drawing on unprecedented archival research; leaked DEA, Mexican law enforcement, and cartel documents; and dozens of harrowing interviews, Smith tells a thrilling story brimming with vivid characters--from Ignacia La Nacha Jasso, queen pin of Ciudad Juárez, to Dr. Leopoldo Salazar Viniegra, the crusading physician who argued that marijuana was harmless and tried to decriminalize morphine, to Harry Anslinger, the Machiavellian founder of the American Federal Bureau of Narcotics, who drummed up racist drug panics to increase his budget. Smith also profiles everyday agricultural workers, whose stories reveal both the economic benefits and the human cost of the trade.

The Dope contains many surprising conclusions about drug use and the failure of drug enforcement, all backed by new research and data. Smith explains the complicated dynamics that drive the current drug war violence, probes the U.S.-backed policies that have inflamed the carnage, and explores corruption on both sides of the border. A dark morality tale about the American hunger for intoxication and the necessities of human survival, The Dope is essential for understanding the violence in the drug war and how decades-old myths shape Mexico in the American imagination today.

Descubra la fascinante historia de México a través de 1000 datos interesantes!

Este libro lo llevará en un emocionante viaje a través del tiempo, desde las antiguas civilizaciones hasta el México actual. Tanto si es un entusiasta de la historia como si simplemente siente curiosidad por el rico patrimonio de México, esta completa guía tiene algo para todos los gustos.

En su interior, explorará

• La extraordinaria época precolombina y las avanzadas civilizaciones que florecieron.
• La dramática conquista y colonización de México por los conquistadores españoles
• La intensa guerra chichimeca y su impacto en la sociedad mexicana
• La inspiradora guerra de Independencia de México y el nacimiento de una nación
• Los turbulentos años del Primer Imperio y la Primera República de México
• La legendaria guerra de Independencia de Texas y su trascendencia en las relaciones mexicano-americanas
• La República mexicana centralista y sus retos para mantener el control
• La encarnizada guerra de Castas de Yucatán y la resistencia indígena
• La devastadora guerra México-Estados Unidos y sus consecuencias para ambos países
• La transformadora guerra de Reforma y el impulso al cambio político
• El efímero pero influyente Segundo Imperio mexicano
• La expansión de la industrialización en México y su impacto en la sociedad
• El tumultuoso periodo de la Revolución mexicana y la lucha por la igualdad social
• El conflicto religioso de la guerra cristera y sus secuelas
• La larga época del Partido Revolucionario Institucional que dio forma al México moderno
• El audaz paso de México con la expropiación nacional del petróleo en 1938
• Y muchos otros acontecimientos significativos.

Este libro es perfecto para aficionados a la historia, estudiantes o cualquiera que desee profundizar sus conocimientos sobre México. Repleta de datos fascinantes, esta completa guía abarca desde las antiguas civilizaciones hasta la política actual, la cultura, los deportes, las artes, los cambios socioeconómicos, etc. Le sorprenderán los increíbles relatos y momentos cruciales que conforman la rica y compleja historia de México.

This book analyzes the ways collective memories of the US-Mexico War have shaped Mexican Americans' civil rights struggles over several generations. As the first Latinx people incorporated into the nation, Mexican Americans were offered US citizenship by the Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo, which ended the war. Because the 1790 Naturalization Act declared whites solely eligible for citizenship, the treaty pronounced Mexican Americans to be legally white. While their incorporation as citizens appeared as progress towards racial justice and the electorate's diversification, their second-class citizenship demonstrated a retrenchment in racial progress. Over several generations, civil rights activists summoned conquest memories to link Mexican Americans' poverty, electoral disenfranchisement, low educational attainment, and health disparities to structural and institutional inequalities resulting from racial retrenchments. Activists also recalled the treaty's citizenship guarantees to push for property rights, protection from vigilante attacks, and educational reform.

Omar Valerio-Jiménez addresses the politics of memory by exploring how succeeding generations reinforced or modified earlier memories of conquest according to their contemporary social and political contexts. The book also examines collective memories in the US and Mexico to illustrate transnational influences on Mexican Americans and to demonstrate how community and national memories can be used strategically to advance political agendas.

Drawing on newly discovered sources and writing with brilliance, drama, and profound historical insight, Hugh Thomas presents an engrossing narrative of one of the most significant events of Western history.Ringing with the fury of two great empires locked in an epic battle, Conquest captures in extraordinary detail the Mexican and Spanish civilizations and offers unprecedented in-depth portraits of the legendary opponents, Montezuma and Cortés. Conquest is an essential work of history from one of our most gifted historians.

Mexico's history is a mixture of conquest and plunder, violence and brutality, fabulous civilizations, and spectacular cultural achievements. A fascinating story.--Christian Science Monitor

There have been many Mexicos: the country of varied terrain, of Amerindian heritage, of the Spanish Conquest, of the Revolution, and of the modern era of elections and the rule of bankers. Mexico was forged in the fires of successive civilizations, and baptized with the blood of millions, all of whom added tragic dimensions to the modern Mexican identity. T. R. Fehrenbach brilliantly delineates the contrasts and conflicts between them, unraveling the history while weaving a fascinating tapestry of beauty and brutality: the Amerindians, who wrought from the vulnerable land a great indigenous Meso-American civilization by the first millennium B.C.; the successive reigns of Olmec, Maya, Toltec, and Mexic masters, who ruled through an admirably efficient bureaucracy and the power of the priests, propitiating the capricious gods with human sacrifices; the Spanish conquistadors, who used smallpox, technology, and their own ruthless individualism to erect a new tyranny over the ruins of the old; the agony of independent Mexico, struggling with the weight of its overwhelming past and tremendous potential. Throughout the narrative the author resurrects the great personalities of Mexican history, such as Motecuhzoma, Cortes, Santa Anna, Juárez, Maximilian, Díaz, Pancho Villa, and Zapata. Fehrenbach, who has updated this edition to include recent events, has created a work of scholarly perspective and gripping prose.

CUATRO PASEOS HISTÓRICOS PARA ENTENDERLO TODO

Ésta es una historia que engloba la de toda la humanidad: su mentalidad, sus miedos, sus esperanzas, sus límites ficticios y sus capacidades ilimitadas. Una historia de cómo los humanos se someten a sus propias ideas. Y también un camino para escapar de la prisión de la mente.

La tiranía de las ideas te liberará del lastre del pasado a través de un viaje entre Europa y América en el que recorrerás Roma, Tenochtitlan, Londres, Washington y el mundo entero para atestiguar cinco siglos de historia. Un viaje para comprender a estadounidenses y mexicanos, y a través de ellos a todas las culturas, a la especie humana y, finalmente, el misterio mismo de la existencia.

Un análisis compasivo de la historia de la humanidad. Un libro necesario para la paz entre individuos y entre pueblos. Una reflexión contra la división y los discursos de odio. Una refrescante visión para comprenderlo todo.

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FOUR HISTORICAL JOURNEYS TO UNDERSTAND EVERYTHING

This is a story that encompasses the entirety of humanity: its mindset, its fears, its hopes, its fictional boundaries, and its limitless capabilities. A story of how humans succumb to their own ideas. And also, a path to escape the mental prison.

The Tyranny of Ideas will free you from the burden of the past through a journey between Europe and the Americas, in which you will navigate through Rome, Tenochtitlan, London, Washington, and the entire world to witness five centuries of history. A journey to understand Americans and Mexicans, and through them, all cultures, the human species, and finally, the very mystery of our existence.

A compassionate analysis of the history of humanity. An essential book for finding peace among individuals and nations. A reflection against division and hate speech. A refreshing vision to understand everything.

Visionary essays and images from the crucible of the Mexican Revolution.

El Paso/Juárez served as the tinderbox of the Mexican Revolution and the tumultuous years to follow. In essays and archival photographs, David Romo tells the surreal stories at the roots of the greatest Latin American revolution: The sainted beauty queen Teresita inspires revolutionary fervor and is rumored to have blessed the first rifles of the revolutionaries; anarchists publish newspapers and hatch plots against the hated Porfirio Diaz regime; Mexican outlaw Pancho Villa eats ice cream cones and rides his Indian motorcycle happily through downtown; El Paso's gringo mayor wears silk underwear because he is afraid of Mexican lice; John Reed contributes a never-before-published essay; young Mexican maids refuse to be deloused so they shut down the border and back down Pershing's men in the process; vegetarian and spiritualist Francisco Madero institutes the Mexican revolutionary junta in El Paso before crossing into Juárez to his ill-fated presidency and assassination; and bands play Verdi while firing squads go about their deadly business. Romo's work does what Mike Davis' City of Quartz did for Los Angeles--it presents a subversive and contrary vision of the sister cities during this crucial time for both countries.