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

Drop uninteresting language classes and research Spanish with this dynamic, multimedia path! perform Makes excellent: starting Spanish grants an all-encompassing studying event. you are going to immerse your self in wide audio perform and written workouts, supplying you with the information and help you must grasp the elemental constructions of Spanish.

Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy: A Historical Perspective

This booklet is the 1st entire and systematic English-language remedy of Mexico's fiscal background to seem in approximately 40 years. Drawing on a number of years of in-depth learn, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Jaime Ros, of the key specialists at the Mexican economic climate, study Mexico's present improvement guidelines and difficulties from a old viewpoint.

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

"In this learn of advanced ideals during which Aztec faith and Spanish Catholicism mix, Lafaye demonstrates the significance of spiritual ideals within the formation of the Mexican country. faraway from being of in basic terms parochial curiosity, this quantity is of significant worth to any historian of religions all for 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, ebook 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 topics via expanding social rules in their our bodies and the areas they inhabited.