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  • Ancient Origins of the Mexican Plaza

    From Primordial Sea to Public Space

    by Logan Wagner, Hal Box, Susan Kline Morehead ...
    Series series Roger Fullington Series in Architecture
    The plaza has been a defining feature of Mexican urban architecture and culture for at least 4,000 years. Ancient Mesoamericans conducted most of their communal life in outdoor public spaces, and today the plaza is still the public living room in every Mexican neighborhood, town, and city—the place where friends meet, news is shared, and personal and communal rituals and celebrations happen. The ... Read more

    $58.49 USD

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  • El Narco

    Inside Mexico's Criminal Insurgency

    by Ioan Grillo ...
    "Essential reading."-Steve Coll, NewYorker.comA gripping, sobering account of how Mexican drug gangs have transformed into a criminal insurgency that threatens the nation's democracy and reaches across to the United States.The world has watched, stunned, the bloodshed in Mexico. Forty thousand murdered since 2006; police chiefs shot within hours of taking office; mass graves comparable to those of ... Read more

    $12.99 USD

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  • The Pentagon

    A History

    by Steve Vogel ...
    The creation of the Pentagon in seventeen whirlwind months during World War II is one of the great construction feats in American history, involving a tremendous mobilization of manpower, resources, and minds. In astonishingly short order, Brigadier General Brehon B. Somervell conceived and built an institution that ranks with the White House, the Vatican, and a handful of other structures as ... Read more

    $14.99 USD

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  • General and the Jaguar

    Pershing's Hunt for Pancho Villa: A True Story of Revolution and Revenge

    by Eileen Welsome ...
    Pulitzer Prize winner Welsome's gripping, panoramic story reveals a vicious surprise attack on the United States and America's hunt for the perpetrator, Pancho Villa. ... Read more

    $14.39 USD

  • Spectacular Mexico

    Design, Propaganda, and the 1968 Olympics

    by Luis M. Castañeda ...
    Series series A Quadrant Book
    In the wake of its early twentieth-century civil wars, Mexico strove to present itself to the world as unified and prosperous. The preparation in Mexico City for the 1968 Summer Olympics was arguably the most ambitious of a sequence of design projects that aimed to signal Mexico’s arrival in the developed world. In Spectacular Mexico, Luis M. Castañeda demonstrates how these projects were used to ... Read more

    $25.99 USD

  • San Juan Bautista

    Gateway to Spanish Texas

    by Robert S. Weddle ...
    Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of Texas, 1978In their efforts to assert dominion over vast reaches of the (now U.S.) Southwest in the seventeenth century, the Spanish built a series of far-flung missions and presidios at strategic locations. One of the most important of these was San Juan Bautista del Río Grande, located at the present-day site of Guerrero in Coahuila, ... Read more

    $32.39 USD

  • The Art and Architecture of the Texas Missions

    by Jacinto Quirarte ...
    Series series Jack and Doris Smothers Series in Texas History, Life, and Culture
    Winner, Presidio La Bahia Award, Sons of the Republic of TexasBuilt to bring Christianity and European civilization to the northern frontier of New Spain in the seventeenth and eighteenth centuries...secularized and left to decay in the nineteenth century...and restored in the twentieth century, the Spanish missions still standing in Texas are really only shadows of their original selves. The ... Read more

    $43.19 USD

  • Understanding Architecture

    An Introduction to Architecture and Architectural History

    by Hazel Conway, Rowan Roenisch ...
    A comprehensive introduction to architecture and architectural history and exceptional in its approach, this book explores architecture as a current practice in relation to history and in relation to the wider context of cultures, conservation and the environment. This new edition brings in the new emphasis on sustainability, urbanism, urban regeneration and cultural identity, in order to take a ... Read more

    $67.99 USD

  • 200 Years Yonge

    A History

    Edited by Ralph Magel ...
    The Yonge Street as conceived by Lieutenant-Governor John Graves Simcoe is celebrated, from its beginning as a First Nation’s Trail, to the Yonge Street we know today, extending from Toronto to Innisfil. Augustus Jones, the surveyor assigned by Simcoe, the French, the German pioneers, the Loyalists – all were to influence the building of Yonge Street. With the building of a route came tolls, inns, ... Read more

    $8.99 USD or Free with Kobo Plus

  • A Flock Divided

    Race, Religion, and Politics in Mexico, 1749–1857

    by Matthew D. O'Hara ...
    Catholicism, as it developed in colonial Mexico, helped to create a broad and remarkably inclusive community of Christian subjects, while it also divided that community into countless smaller flocks. Taking this contradiction as a starting point, Matthew D. O’Hara describes how religious thought and practice shaped Mexico’s popular politics. As he shows, religion facilitated the emergence of new ... Read more

    $20.89 USD

  • The Cross and the Compass

    Freemasonry and Religious Tolerance in Mexico

    by Sara Frahm ...
    The present book is an effort to understand the role of masonry in the introduction of freedom of worship in Mexico. With erudition, the author leads us through the stages ending with the victory of the liberal republic, headed by Benito Jurez, and the establishment thereby of freedom of worship, which made possible the insertion of American protestant missions in Mexico. Many Protestants brought ... Read more

    $3.99 USD

  • Antiquities of Mexico

    by History and Civilization Collection ...
    This book deals with the antiquities of Mexico (with illustrations).“The Mexican Republic extends from the fifteenth to the thirtieth degree of north latitude, and embraces an area of about 750,000 square miles. It is traversed by the continuation of the Cordillera of South America, here called the Sierra Madre, which trends north-westerly from the Isthmus of Tehuantepec, and varies in height from ... Read more

    $3.99 USD