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

Drop dull language classes and study Spanish with this dynamic, multimedia path! perform Makes ideal: starting Spanish delivers an all-encompassing studying adventure. you are going to immerse your self in wide audio perform and written routines, supplying you with the advice and help you must grasp the fundamental buildings of Spanish.

Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy: A Historical Perspective

This booklet is the 1st entire and systematic English-language therapy of Mexico's fiscal historical past 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 major specialists at the Mexican economic climate, study Mexico's present improvement rules and difficulties from a old point of view.

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

"In this examine of advanced ideals within which Aztec faith and Spanish Catholicism mixture, Lafaye demonstrates the significance of spiritual ideals within the formation of the Mexican kingdom. faraway from being of in basic terms parochial curiosity, this quantity is of significant price to any historian of religions serious about 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 watch over its colonial topics via expanding social law in their our bodies and the areas they inhabited.