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

Drop dull language classes and examine Spanish with this dynamic, multimedia path! perform Makes ideal: starting Spanish can provide an all-encompassing studying adventure. you will immerse your self in large audio perform and written routines, supplying you with the assistance and help you want to grasp the fundamental constructions of Spanish.

Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy: A Historical Perspective

This ebook is the 1st accomplished and systematic English-language remedy of Mexico's fiscal historical past 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 main specialists at the Mexican financial system, learn Mexico's present improvement guidelines and difficulties from a historic viewpoint.

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

"In this learn of advanced 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 significant worth to any historian of religions excited by 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, e-book Award, organization of Latin American artwork, 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 legislation in their our bodies and the areas they inhabited.