Book Description
The origins and traditions of these two special holidays are presented in this illustrated reference book with full-color photos for middle readers.
Author : Dianne M. MacMillan
Publisher : Enslow Publishers, Inc.
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 13,6 MB
Release : 2008
Category : Juvenile Nonfiction
ISBN : 9780766030442
The origins and traditions of these two special holidays are presented in this illustrated reference book with full-color photos for middle readers.
Author : Eliseo Torres
Publisher : UNM Press
Page : 76 pages
File Size : 37,24 MB
Release : 2005-09-15
Category : Juvenile Fiction
ISBN : 9780826338860
Six bilingual children's stories from Mexico.
Author : Timothy J. Henderson
Publisher : Hill and Wang
Page : 279 pages
File Size : 46,56 MB
Release : 2009-04-14
Category : History
ISBN : 1429938587
Mexico's wars for independence were not fought to achieve political independence. Unlike their neighbors to the north, Mexico's revolutionaries aimed to overhaul their society. Intending profound social reform, the rebellion's leaders declared from the onset that their struggle would be incomplete, even meaningless, if it were merely a political event. Easily navigating through nineteenth-century Mexico's complex and volatile political environment, Timothy J. Henderson offers a well-rounded treatment of the entire period, but pays particular attention to the early phases of the revolt under the priests Miguel Hidalgo and José María Morelos. Hidalgo promised an immediate end to slavery and tailored his appeals to the poor, but also sanctioned pillage and shocking acts of violence. This savagery would ultimately cost Hidalgo, Morelos, and the entire country dearly, leading to the revolution's failure in pursuit of both meaningful social and political reform. While Mexico eventually gained independence from Spain, severe social injustices remained and would fester for another century. Henderson deftly traces the major leaders and conflicts, forcing us to reconsider what "independence" meant and means for Mexico today.
Author : David Hayes-Bautista
Publisher : Univ of California Press
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 28,31 MB
Release : 2012-05-05
Category : History
ISBN : 0520951794
Why is Cinco de Mayo—a holiday commemorating a Mexican victory over the French at Puebla in 1862—so widely celebrated in California and across the United States, when it is scarcely observed in Mexico? As David E. Hayes-Bautista explains, the holiday is not Mexican at all, but rather an American one, created by Latinos in California during the mid-nineteenth century. Hayes-Bautista shows how the meaning of Cinco de Mayo has shifted over time—it embodied immigrant nostalgia in the 1930s, U.S. patriotism during World War II, Chicano Power in the 1960s and 1970s, and commercial intentions in the 1980s and 1990s. Today, it continues to reflect the aspirations of a community that is engaged, empowered, and expanding.
Author : William H. Beezley
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 292 pages
File Size : 33,95 MB
Release : 2001
Category : History
ISBN : 9780842029155
Examines the history of celebrations of Mexican Independence Day on September 15. Describes historic celebrations in different parts of the country including Mexico City, San Luis Potosi, San Angel, and Puebla.
Author : Jaime E. Rodriguez O.
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 521 pages
File Size : 32,12 MB
Release : 2012-06-06
Category : History
ISBN : 0804784639
This book is a radical reinterpretation of the process that led to Mexican independence in 1821—one that emphasizes Mexico's continuity with Spanish political culture. During its final decades under Spanish rule, New Spain was the most populous, richest, and most developed part of the worldwide Spanish Monarchy, and most novohispanos (people of New Spain) believed that their religious, social, economic, and political ties to the Monarchy made union preferable to separation. Neither the American nor the French Revolution convinced the novohispanos to sever ties with the Spanish Monarchy; nor did the Hidalgo Revolt of September 1810 and subsequent insurgencies cause Mexican independence. It was Napoleon's invasion of Spain in 1808 that led to the Hispanic Constitution of 1812. When the government in Spain rejected those new constituted arrangements, Mexico declared independence. The Mexican Constitution of 1824 affirms both the new state's independence and its continuance of Spanish political culture.
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Gale Group Inc. presents information about the Hispanic holiday, Mexican Independence Day (September 16), which is celebrated in commemoration of the Mexico's proclamation of independence from Spain in 1810. Gale Group suggests some activities and provides this information as a part of Celebrating Hispanic Heritage.
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Page : 8 pages
File Size : 46,95 MB
Release : 1901
Category : Mexico
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Author : Leslie Bethell
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 466 pages
File Size : 13,38 MB
Release : 1991-09-27
Category : History
ISBN : 1316583562
Mexico Since Independence brings together six chapters from Volumes III, V and VII of the Cambridge History of Latin America to provide in a single volume an economic, social and political history of Mexico since independence from Spain in 1821. This, it is hoped, will be useful for both teachers and students of Latin American history. Each chapter is accompanied by a bibliographical essay.
Author : William Dirk Raat
Publisher : U of Nebraska Press
Page : 1080 pages
File Size : 29,39 MB
Release : 1982-01-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9780803289048
The first classroom reader devoted exclusively to nineteeth-century Mexican history, this volume brings together twenty-six essays and primary documents treating Mexico's Age of Caudillos. The readings—many by Mexican politicians, historians, and commentators and available here in English for the first time—are organized into four groups representing major eras in the early national development of Mexico: Independence, the age of Santa Anna, La Reforma and the French Intervention, and the Porfiriato. The selections range from autobiography to political and economic history, from the history of ideas to philosophy and social history. The interpretive essays represent both traditional and revisionist views, while the primary materials comprise both political documents and contemporary personal accounts.