Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico Third Edition, Edition Contributor(s): Beezley, William H. (Author) |
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ISBN: 1496206908 ISBN-13: 9781496206909 Publisher: University of Nebraska Press OUR PRICE: $17.96 Product Type: Paperback Published: June 2018 |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - History | Latin America - Mexico |
Dewey: 972.08 |
LCCN: 2018933516 |
Physical Information: 0.48" H x 5.5" W x 8.5" (0.60 lbs) 210 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Latin America - Cultural Region - Mexican |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Featuring a new preface by the author, this brilliant and eminently readable cultural history looks at Mexican life during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz, from 1876 to 1911. At that time the modernization that Mexico underwent produced a fierce struggle between the traditional and the new, exacerbating class antagonisms in the process. The noted historian William H. Beezley illuminates many facets of everyday Mexican life lying at the heart of this conflict and change, including sports, storytelling, health care, technology, and the traditional Easter-time Judas burnings that became a primary focus of strife during those years. William H. Beezley is a professor of history at the University of Arizona. He is the author or editor of dozens of books, including Mexicans in Revolution, 1910-1946, with Colin MacLachlan (Nebraska, 2009), Mexico's Crucial Century, 1810-1910: An Introduction (Nebraska, 2010), and Mexico in World History. Beezley is the editor in chief of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia for Latin America. In 2017 the Mexican government awarded him its Ohtili Medal. |