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"The one source that sets reference collections on Latin American studies apart from all other geographic areas of the world.... The Handbook has provided scholars interested in Latin America with a bibliographical source of a quality unavailable to scholars in most other branches of area studies." —Latin American Research Review Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Studies, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year b...
Beginning with volume 41 (1979), the University of Texas Press became the publisher of the Handbook of Latin American Stuides, the most comprehensive annual bibliography in the field. Compiled by the Hispanic Division of the Library of Congress and annotated by a corps of more than 130 specialists in various disciplines, the Handbook alternates from year to year between social sciences and humanities. The Handbook annotates works on Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean and the Guianas, Spanish South America, and Brazil, as well as materials covering Latin America as a whole. Most of the subsections are preceded by introductory essays that serve as biannual evaluations of the literature and...
Selected rape victim testimonies. -- Impunity for sexual and domestic violence. Sexual and domestic violence: Underreported and underrepresented in government crime estimates - Inadequate legal framework for the prevention and punishment of violence against women: State law and policy on domestic violence ; state law and policy on sexual violence. - Lax implementation of legal standards: Pervasive distrust of rape victim testimony ; Other barriers to reporting rape ; Undue emphasis on reconciliation and mediation ; The cost of justice ; Lack of public services. -- Abortion in Mexico. Legal framework, public debate, and occurrence - Prosecution for illegal abortions. -- Obstructing access to ...
The Vatican Diaries is an inside look at one of the world's most powerful and mysterious institutions, by John Thavis. 'A humane and realistic and (yes) humorous picture of a mortal institution. To an old Prot like me, it's a tour of alien terrain and a bridge to old and dear friends' Garrison Keillor For thirty years John Thavis worked for the Catholic News Service in Rome and reported on the inner workings of the Vatican. The Vatican Diaries is his insightful and often very funny account of exactly what goes on in this unique and secretive institution. It's a place where cardinals fight private wars, scandals are constantly threatening to undermine papal authority, and reverence for the pa...
Historia de México 2 tiene como propósito dotar a los estudiantes de conocimientos relevantes y pertinentes sobre el devenir histórico de nuestro país, a partir de la revisión de las diferentes ideologías al iniciar la vida independiente y cómo se fueron transformando en proyectos de nación. A su vez, podrá valorar los logros de las repúblicas federal y central, durante las cuales se dieron intervenciones extranjeras que tuvieron como consecuencia la pérdida de territorios que ocasionó la revolución de Ayutla que puso fin a la dictadura de Antonio López de Santa Anna. Todo ello contribuyó a la creación de un nacionalismo plasmado en una nueva Constitución promulgada en 1857;...
This meticulous study examines the holdings of the Guadalajara diocese and explains who took possession of them when the Mexican government appropriated church properties.
2019 Thomas McGann Award for best publication in Latin American Studies In late nineteenth-century Mexico a woman's presence in the home was a marker of middle-class identity. However, as economic conditions declined during the Mexican Revolution and jobs traditionally held by women disappeared, a growing number of women began to look for work outside the domestic sphere. As these "angels of the home" began to take office jobs, middle-class identity became more porous. To understand how office workers shaped middle-class identities in Mexico, From Angel to Office Worker examines the material conditions of women's work and analyzes how women themselves reconfigured public debates over their e...
This book is a study of the political development of the many factions that surfaced in Mexico from the achievement of independence in 1821 to General Antonio Lopez de Santa Anna's last government in 1853-55. Paying particular attention to the writings of the main thinkers of the period and the ways in which they inspired or were betrayed by their respective factions, this volume concentrates on the evolution of the different factions (traditionalists, moderates, radicals, and santanistas), who sustained their beliefs at one point or another. It follows a chronological approach and puts significant emphasis to the way the hopes of the 1820s degenerated into the despair of the 1840s, and how ...