Practice Makes Perfect Beginning Spanish with CD-ROM (Practice Makes Perfect (McGraw-Hill))

Drop uninteresting language classes and study Spanish with this dynamic, multimedia direction! perform Makes excellent: starting Spanish promises an all-encompassing studying adventure. you are going to immerse your self in broad audio perform and written routines, providing you with the counsel and help you must grasp the elemental constructions of Spanish.

Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy: A Historical Perspective

This e-book is the 1st entire and systematic English-language therapy of Mexico's financial heritage to seem in approximately 40 years. Drawing on a number of years of in-depth examine, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Jaime Ros, of the major specialists at the Mexican economic system, research Mexico's present improvement regulations and difficulties from a ancient viewpoint.

Quetzalcoatl and Guadalupe: The Formation of Mexican National Consciousness, 1531-1813

"In this learn of complicated ideals within which Aztec faith and Spanish Catholicism mixture, Lafaye demonstrates the significance of spiritual ideals within the formation of the Mexican state. faraway from being of in simple terms parochial curiosity, this quantity is of serious price to any historian of religions keen on difficulties of nativism and syncretism.

Imagining Identity in New Spain: Race, Lineage, and the Colonial Body in Portraiture and Casta Paintings (Joe R. and Teresa Lozana Long Series in Latin American and Latino Art and Culture)

Winner, booklet Award, organization of Latin American paintings, 2004Reacting to the emerging numbers of mixed-blood (Spanish-Indian-Black African) humans in its New Spain colony, the eighteenth-century Bourbon executive of Spain tried to categorize and regulate its colonial matters via expanding social legislation in their our bodies and the areas they inhabited.