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 offers an all-encompassing studying event. you will immerse your self in broad audio perform and written workouts, supplying you with the information and help you must grasp the fundamental constructions of Spanish.

Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy: A Historical Perspective

This booklet is the 1st complete and systematic English-language remedy of Mexico's financial 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 key specialists at the Mexican economic system, research Mexico's present improvement regulations and difficulties from a ancient point of view.

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 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 an eye on its colonial matters via expanding social rules in their our bodies and the areas they inhabited.

Peregrina: Love and Death in Mexico (Louann Atkins Temple Women & Culture Series)

Within the Yucatán, they by no means forgot Alma Reed. She arrived for the 1st time in 1923, on task for the recent York instances Sunday journal to hide an archaeological survey of Mayan ruins. It was once a latest Maya, despite the fact that, who stole her middle. Felipe Carrillo Puerto, stated to be descended from Mayan kings, had lately been elected governor of the Yucatán on a platform emphasizing egalitarian reforms and indigenous rights.