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

Drop dull language classes and examine Spanish with this dynamic, multimedia direction! perform Makes excellent: starting Spanish grants an all-encompassing studying adventure. you are going to immerse your self in broad audio perform and written workouts, supplying you with the assistance and aid you must grasp the elemental buildings 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 monetary background to seem in approximately 40 years. Drawing on numerous years of in-depth study, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid and Jaime Ros, of the main specialists at the Mexican economic climate, research Mexico's present improvement rules and difficulties from a ancient standpoint.

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

"In this learn of advanced ideals within which Aztec faith and Spanish Catholicism mix, Lafaye demonstrates the significance of spiritual ideals within the formation of the Mexican kingdom. faraway from being of purely parochial curiosity, this quantity is of significant worth to any historian of religions concerned 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, e-book 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 keep an eye on its colonial matters via expanding social legislation in their our bodies and the areas they inhabited.