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

Drop uninteresting language classes and study Spanish with this dynamic, multimedia path! perform Makes ideal: starting Spanish can provide an all-encompassing studying adventure. you will immerse your self in huge audio perform and written routines, providing you with the suggestions and aid you must grasp the elemental constructions of Spanish.

Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy: A Historical Perspective

This publication is the 1st finished and systematic English-language therapy of Mexico's fiscal heritage to seem in approximately 40 years. Drawing on numerous years of in-depth learn, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Jaime Ros, of the main specialists at the Mexican financial system, learn Mexico's present improvement guidelines and difficulties from a old standpoint.

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

"In this examine of complicated ideals during 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 simply parochial curiosity, this quantity is of serious price to any historian of religions all in favour of 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, publication 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 govt of Spain tried to categorize and keep an eye on its colonial matters via expanding social legislation in their our bodies and the areas they inhabited.