Search Results: History: Mexico and Central America from The Owl at the Bridge

New York, Simon & Schuster, 1963. Contents: First Inhabitants; Village Artists; Enduring Villages; Olmecs; Mezcala; Formative Age; Teotihuacán; Zapotecs; Veracruz: Remojadas; Veracruz: Yokes, Hachas and Palmas; Maya; Huaxtecs; Fall of the Theocracies; Last Outposts; Toltecs; Post-Classic Maya; Mixtec Renaissance; Invaders; Aztecs; "Some books for further reading", pages [244]-247. Hard Cover. 256 pages, illus., endpaper maps, index, 25 cm. Vg / no dj. Stock#44965.

Food First Books, Oakland, Calif. [c1999]. Soft Cover. Foreword by Peter Rosset. Preface by Rodolfo Stavenhagen. 235, [2] p., index, maps, charts; 21.5 cm. "This book makes absolutely clear what the economic restructuring of the 1980s has left in its wake, and while their chosen case study is of Chiapas, what they have to say is equally relevant to South Central Los Angeles or any other community that has had its fabric ripped asunder by home-grown or exported Reaganomics. The growing gulf between rich and poor leads to the desperation and violence of neighbor against neighbor. In Chiapas, at least, a new social grouping has emerged from the desolation, represented by the Zapatistas and their spokesman, Sub-Comandante Marcos. Perhaps they are showing all of us a path forward, setting aside the ethnic differences that separate us and the verticalism that often stifles popular movements." Color pictorial paper covers; minor wear & soiling; VG. stock#40842.

N.Y., Orion Press/ Grossman, 1971. Hard Cover. lxvii, 565 p. 20 illus. 23.5 cm. End-paper maps. Introduction by J.H. Elliott. Letters written by the conqueror of Mexico to Charles V presenting Cortes' case for his insubordination. Stock #29,459.Vg, very slight water stain , can be seen at the top edge of the index, slight munching to an inch of the front cover/ dj. vg, but has rodent munching tolower 2 inches of front hinge.

N.Y., Holt, Rinehart, Winston, 1971. Book club. Napoleon III established the Austrian Maximilian as Emperor of Mexico to promote French interests. Hard Cover. x, 531 pages, 16 pages of plates, 21.5 cm. Vg/ dj vg. Stock#32294.

NY, Holt, Rinehart & Winston [1972, ©1971]. Hard Cover. viii, 531 p., [16] p. of plates; 21.5 cm. A detailed and sympathetic portrait of Ferdinand Maximilian Joseph and his Belgian consort. ISBN (10): 0030865727. Book club stamp; Very Good in VG dust jacket. Stock#47480.

New Haven, Yale UP, 1994. Hard Cover. x, 182 p., index, illus.; 24 cm. "Despite the extensive modern literature on the evangelization of the New World, the devil has received little attention. Yet until the end of the eighteenth century, missionaries themselves saw diabolism as the root of the Amerindian belief system and as the principal reason for their own failure to establish a church purged of Satan and pagan superstition." Stock# 34,485. Vg/ dj vg. Religion, history.

N.Y., Farrar, Straus & Cudahy [1956]. . Hard Cover. xxxi, [ii], 478 p., index, map; 24.5 cm. Translated with an introduction and notes by A. P. Maudslay. Introduction to the American edition by Irving A. Leonard. Stock #29,457x. Vg/ dj chipped, worn, waterstained; book club edition;

Monterrey, México, Gobierno del Estado de Nuevo Léon, Centro de Estudios Humanísticos de la Universidad de Nuevo León. Soft Cover. Signed. 261 p.; 24 cm. Series: Biblioteca de Nuevo León 3. Translation of The Public Career of General Bernardo Reyes, thesis, University of Texas. Text very good, covers foxed. Stock#47391.

Salisbury, N.C., Documentary Publications, 1983. Hard Cover. vii, [8], 217 p., index, photos, map. 'Provides a balanced, comprehensive analysis of the historical, political and socio-economic forces at work in Central America in the 1980's.' Stock #23123x. Vg/vg.

New York, Heritage Press, [1949?]. Hard Cover. xx, 558 p., color plates, including col. map, 25 cm. With the preface by the author; the text edited, with an introduction, by Harry Block; and the illustrations drawn by Miguel Covarrubias. Issued in case. Stock# 37,740. Vg, faint, small blue crayon scribble on front cover/ slipcase worn.

Harper & Row [1970]. A closely researched account of an early American culture clash: how the Aztec mythic world and the cult of Huitzilopochtli made Montezuma vulnerable and how Cortes used the Virgin Mary as a counter. Soft Cover. xvi, 319 pages, index, plate, map; 20.5 cm. Paper; Very Good. Stock#24408x/house.

London, Verso, c1984. Translation by Ann Wright of Me llamo Rigoberta Menchù y así me nació la conciencia. Rigoberta Menchù tells of growing up a peasant in Guatemala and of her struggle for social justice. Soft Cover. xxi, 251, [1] pages; 21 cm. Long gift inscription on title-page, else Very Good. Stock#36539 (s-b).

N.Y., Viking [1987].. Hard Cover. 171 p., maps; 21 cm. 'First American Edition.' Rushdie traveled to Nicaragua during years when the United States was destroying the country to combat Communism. Stock# 37,744. Vg, small remainder mark on fore edge/ dj fine. Literature.

Dovehouse Editions, Ottawa; Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 2000. Soft Cover. 290 p., index; 21.5 cm. Texts by Puig, Rulfo, Carpentier, Sarmiento, and Sabato examine contradictions in Latin American civilization with regard to violence and social and political deadlock. The garbage dump (vertedero) illustrates the plight of people forced to become pariahs in their own countries. Contents include Dialéctica modernidad / postmodernidad; El vertedero: metáfora epistemológica de la modernidad; Teatralidad y política: los medios masivos de información; Perspectivas epistemológicas de la alteridad; Estereotipo, identidad, memoria en Concierto barroco de Carpentier; Dialéctica centro / periferia en Concierto barroco de Carpentier; Discursos de la modernidad latinoamericana: el Facundo de Sarmiento; Literatura y etnicidad: Sábato; Reciclaje cultural y resistencia: The Buenos Aires Affair de Manuel Puig; Los callejones sin salida de la alteridad mejicana: Rulfo; Movela y postmodernidad en… Read More

London, Weidenfeld & Nicolson, 1999. Hard Cover. xi, 450 pages, [24] pages of plates, illustrations (some color), maps; 24 cm. "Charts the course of Maya discovery and answers many of the mysteries their civilization has posed: the nature of Mayan religion, the extent of warfare and human sacrifice in their society, how they were able to support vast populations in the forest environment and why, by the time of the Spanish conquest in the sixteenth century, most of the great cities were already lost and forgotten in the jungle." Fine/fine. 101616x.

NY, Devin-Adair, 1958. "A journal of six months in Mexico." Rodman interviewed "distinguished personalities in theater and public life." Hard Cover. xvi, 298 pages, illus.; 22 cm. Vg/ dj vg. Stock#NS0134.

New York : Madison Square Press/Grosset & Dunlap, 1973.. Hard Cover. 190 p. illus. (100 col.) map, index, 34 cm. Series: Monuments of Civilization. Translation of Città Maya, Milano, 1970. Bibliography: p. 189. The bold signature of John Prip silversmith and designer on front cover. Stock# 44,910. Vg / dj vg.

N.Y., Harper & Row, 1976. Hard Cover. xvii, 427 p. illus., 26 cm. "Probes the history, origin, and purpose of the pyramids in the Valley of Mexico, Yucatan, and Central America. Stock# 31,675. Vg/ dj vg.

NY, Farrar Straus Giroux [1985]. Hard Cover. [viii], 199 p.; 21 cm. Novel set during the Mexican Revolution, a frustrated spinster, a retired journalist, and a fiery young general are inexplicably drawn together as they face love, death and war. Translation of: El Gringo viejo. Stock# 37,748. Fine/ dj fine.

Austin: University of Texas Press, 1984. First Edition. Hard Cover. xix, 746 p., illus.; index, 24.5 cm. "The new Panama Canal treaties were the most significant foreign policy achievement of the Carter administration. Most Latin American nations had regarded the 1903 treaty and its later minor modifications as vestiges of 'American colonialism'." Bibliography: p. [722]-725. stock#NEU053. Vg / dj vg.