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Dave Darrin at Vera Cruz: Fighting with the U.S. Navy in Mexico
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Year: 2004 Publisher: Project Gutenberg

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The First Letter from New Spain : The Lost Petition of Cortés and His Company, June 20, 1519
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ISBN: 029276068X Year: 2014 Publisher: Austin : University of Texas Press,

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The founding of la Villa Rica de la Veracruz (the rich town of the True Cross) is prominently mentioned in histories of the conquest of Mexico, but scant primary documentation of the provocative act exists. During a research session at the Spanish archives, when John Schwaller discovered an early-sixteenth-century letter from Veracruz signed by the members of Cortés’s company, he knew he had found a trove of historical details. Providing an accessible, accurate translation of this pivotal correspondence, along with in-depth examinations of its context and significance, The First Letter from New Spain gives all readers access to the first document written from the mainland of North America by any European, and the only surviving original document from the first months of the conquest. The timing of Cortés’s Good Friday landing, immediately before the initial assault on the Aztec Empire, enhances the significance of this work. Though the expedition was conducted under the authority of Diego Velázquez, governor of Cuba, the letter reflects an attempt to break ties with Velázquez and form a strategic alliance with Carlos V, the Holy Roman Emperor and King of Spain. Brimming with details about the events surrounding Veracruz’s inception and accompanied by mini-biographies of 318 signers of the document—socially competitive men who risked charges of treason by renouncing Velázquez—The First Letter from New Spain gives evidence of entrepreneurship and other overlooked traits that fueled the conquest.


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Migración internacional, crisis agrícola y transformaciones culturales en la región central de Veracruz
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ISBN: 6074020159 2821819129 2821827741 Year: 2008 Publisher: Centro de estudios mexicanos y centroamericanos

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El presente texto nos ofrece un acercamiento al estudio del reciente proceso migratorio transnacional en el que se insertan los pobladores rurales de la región central del estado de Veracruz. Combina la perspectiva histórica, la antropológica y la sociológica, logrando así una visión profunda de esta experiencia regional de los actuales desplazamientos poblacionales. A partir de una mirada socioantropológica sobre un conjunto de localidades de la zona cañero-cafetalera del centro de la entidad, los autores revelan las transformaciones que experimentan estas poblaciones rurales como resultado de la experiencia migratoria reciente. El texto se asienta sobre una caracterización sociohistórica de las localidades elegidas, enfatizando en dos ejes: la cultura campesina regional y las características socioculturales de la familia y las relaciones de género. De esta manera, a partir de las vivencias cotidianas de los pobladores de la región, expresadas a través de su narrativa, el texto nos ofrece una visión profunda de los cambios que se viven en esta región, como resultado de la flexibilización de los merca-dos internacionales de trabajo y de los procesos de globalización capitalista.


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Afromestizaje y fronteras etnicas : Una mirada desde el puerto de Veracruz
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ISBN: 2709925346 6075021965 Year: 2018 Publisher: Marseille : IRD Éditions,

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A partir de un trabajo de campo llevado a cabo en la ciudad de Veracruz, el presente libro pretende hacer énfasis en los modos de categorización y/o identificación étnicos que remitan a la herencia africana en el México urbano y contemporáneo. El objetivo es entender cómo estas formas de identificación se movilizan, modelan, ponen en escena, controvierten, evitan o cuestionan, cómo se insertan dentro de otros modos de identificación y organización de la vida social que se fundan en las diferencias de clase, género, generación o características percibidas –social e históricamente– en términos regionales. A pesar de la larga historia de Veracruz como puerto de llegada del comercio de esclavos africanos y del reconocimiento político gradual de la importancia de la “raíz africana” y del Caribe dentro de la cultura local, muy pocos son los estudios enfocados en los usos sociales de categorías como negro, moreno, afromestizo, afrocaribeño o afrodescendiente. Con sus análisis centrados en las escenas de la vida urbana, en las definiciones de las políticas culturales, en los procesos de transformación urbana o en las lógicas de distinción social, el autor sugiere nuevas pistas de investigación que permitan pensar mejor “el ser ambiguo” de las fronteras étnicas en el marco del proceso de afromestizaje.


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Working women, entrepreneurs, and the Mexican revolution : the coffee culture of Córdoba, Veracruz
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ISBN: 0803246404 9780803246409 0803243715 9780803243712 1496211642 9781496211644 Year: 2013 Publisher: Lincoln, Neb. ; London : University of Nebraska Press,

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In the 1890's, Spanish entrepreneurs spearheaded the emergence of Córdoba, Veracruz, as Mexico's largest commercial center for coffee preparation and export to the Atlantic community. Seasonal women workers quickly became the major part of the agroindustry's labor force. As they grew in numbers and influence in the first half of the twentieth century, these women shaped the workplace culture and contested gender norms through labor union activism and strong leadership. Their fight for workers' rights was supported by the revolutionary state and negotiated within its industrial-labor ins

La semilla en el surco : Adalberto Tejeda y el radicalismo en Veracruz, (1883-1960)
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ISBN: 9681203321 6076287640 Year: 1986 Publisher: El Colegio de México


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Industry and revolution
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ISBN: 0674072723 0674074335 0674074351 9780674074330 9780674072725 Year: 2013 Publisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts Harvard University Press

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The Mexican Revolution has long been considered a revolution of peasants. But Aurora Gómez-Galvarriato's investigation of the mill towns of the Orizaba Valley reveals that industrial workers played a neglected but essential role in shaping the Revolution. By tracing the introduction of mechanized industry into the valley, she connects the social and economic upheaval unleashed by new communication, transportation, and production technologies to the political unrest of the revolutionary decade. Industry and Revolution makes a convincing argument that the Mexican Revolution cannot be understood apart from the changes wrought by the Industrial Revolution, and thus provides a fresh perspective on both transformations. By organizing collectively on a wide scale, the spinners and weavers of the Orizaba Valley, along with other factory workers throughout Mexico, substantially improved their living and working conditions and fought to secure social and civil rights and reforms. Their campaigns fed the imaginations of the masses. The Constitution of 1917, which embodied the core ideals of the Mexican Revolution, bore the stamp of the industrial workers' influence. Their organizations grew powerful enough to recast the relationship between labor and capital, not only in the towns of the valley, but throughout the entire nation. The story of the Orizaba Valley offers insight into the interconnections between the social, political, and economic history of modern Mexico. The forces unleashed by the Mexican and the Industrial revolutions remade the face of the nation and, as Gómez-Galvarriato shows, their consequences proved to be enduring.


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El istmo mexicano: une región inasequible : Estado, poderes locales y dinámicas espaciales (Siglos xvi-xxi)

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Entre los océanos Atlántico y Pacífico, el Istmo mexicano presenta una paradoja: la región geopolítica evocada de manera recurrente por políticos y planificadores, contrasta con la dificultad de identificar una región unificada y con la existencia de diferentes "istmos". Los ensayos aquí reunidos consideran al Istmo mexicano no como un "hecho" regional, establecido e intangible, sino como un escenario de procesos múltiples y diversos, paralelos o encontrados, de construcción y recomposición territorial, política y cultural. Invitamos al lector de este libro a adentrarse en las historias y desventuras de los sucesivos planes de comunicación y reorganización espacial del Istmo y a observar los constantes desfases entre las propuestas derivadas de los poderes económico y político que desde la época y colonial han intentado crear dispositivos de ordenamiento y control territorial y, por otro lado, las lógicas y organizaciones espaciales de las sociedades locales. Los colaboradores de este libro son investigadores formados en distintas disciplinas (antropología, geografía, sociología, historia y agroeconomía) y laboran en diferentes instituciones de investigación nacionales (CIESAS, INAH, UNAM, UPN) y extranjeras (IRD, Universidad de París 8/CREDAL y Universidad de París 7/CNRS).


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Ecology of the Sontecomapan Lagoon, Veracruz
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ISBN: 2709928531 6072815154 Year: 2020 Publisher: Marseille : IRD Éditions,

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Tropical coastal lagoon environments provide a number of ecosystem services, but are threatened by the pressure imposed by human activities and climatic change; these systems are particularly vulnerable because of a high demographic growth. Therefore, the understanding of their ecological behavior and the characterization of lagoon health indicators have attained importance. Under this perspective Mexican (UAM-X) and French (UMRs MIO and MARBEC) researchers have collaborated from 2011 to 2014 as part of one action of the international exchange program ECOS/ANUIES, and chose the Sontecomapan lagoon (at the Mexican state of Veracruz) as a case study. This book provides information of the ecological behavior, water quality indicators, and details of microorganisms and plankton, which due to their short life cycles and their high reactivity to environmental conditions are good.


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The School of Salamanca : a Case of Global Knowledge Production
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ISBN: 9004449744 9004449736 Year: 2021 Publisher: Leiden, The Netherlands : Koninklijke Brill NV,

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"This book proposes a different perspective and shows, through a knowledge historical approach and several case studies, that the School of Salamanca has to be considered both an epistemic community and a community of practice that cannot be fixed to any individual place. Instead, the School of Salamanca encompassed a variety of different sites and actors throughout the world and thus represents a case of global knowledge production"--

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