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 supplies an all-encompassing studying adventure. you will immerse your self in huge audio perform and written workouts, supplying you with the counsel and help you must grasp the fundamental constructions of Spanish.

Development and Growth in the Mexican Economy: A Historical Perspective

This ebook is the 1st finished and systematic English-language remedy of Mexico's monetary heritage 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 economic climate, learn 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 complicated ideals within 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 basically parochial curiosity, this quantity is of significant price 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 regulate its colonial matters via expanding social law in their our bodies and the areas they inhabited.