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Showing 1 to 15 of 15 for “"Mexico--History"”.
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Multiculturalism and the museum : three case studies.
With the rise of social history over the past several decades, educational institutions have increasingly been called upon to represent and showcase different cultural and minority groups within their walls. This has forced museums to reevaluate their exhibit spaces in order to create more …
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Diplomatic Relations Between the United States and Mexico from 1848 to 1854
… restore the peace between the United states and Mexico and place the relations of the two countries upon a friendly basis as would prevent the future occasion for war or strife. There were, however, too many differences in feeling and attitude between the two peoples and too few similarities to …
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The United States and Mexico, 1901-1912
… his sixth term as President of the Republic of Mexico. Roosevelt took the oath of office on September 14th; Diaz celebrated his seventy-first birthday on the 15th. |At this time the relations of the United States and Mexico were most cordial. In commenting upon his inauguration the African …
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The Slaveholders, the Mexican Liberals, and the Texan Revolution
The revolt of Texas from Mexico and its subsequent annexation to the United States produced a conflict of opinion. Anti-slaveryites of all degrees united against acceptance of the new republic either in the family of nations or within the United States, The annexation of Texas was one of the …
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Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico
… a group of detribalized Indians emerged in New Mexico during the Spanish colonial period. These Indians came to be known as the genízaros and, through the process scholars call ethnogenesis, developed their own identity by incorporating Hispano-Christian cultural practices while preserving their …
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Into the Den of Evils: The Genizaros in Colonial New Mexico
… a group of detribalized Indians emerged in New Mexico during the Spanish colonial period. These Indians came to be known as the genízaros and, through the process scholars call ethnogenesis, developed their own identity by incorporating Hispano-Christian cultural practices while preserving their …
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The historicity of the chroniclers on the conquest of Mexico.
… those chroniclers pertaining to the Conquest of Mexico. Few of us forget that Cortés was the conqueror of Mexico City, but fewer of us remember that for nearly two decades after the fall of the Aztec capital he was the outstanding figure in a series of brilliant movements which added the vast …
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A History of the Schools Conducted by the Sisters of Loretto New Mexico
… conducted by the Sisters of Loretto in New Mexico. This history covers a period of nearly one hundred years, during which time there has been a gradual development from their lowly adobe school in Santa Fe with its dirt floor to the present time when the Society conducts ten elementary and …
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The American punitive expedition into Mexico, 1916-1917
<p>Actually the Punitive Expedition did not make much of a change in the relations between
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Valor Wrought Asunder: The Mexican General Officer Corps in the U.S.-Mexican War, 1846-1847.
… War, 1846-1847. Often negatively libeled, Mexicos defeat is often attributed in no small part to the moral shortcomings of the generals who led her armies. By a detailed analysis of their background, motivations, and military careers, a more accurate perspective regarding the Mexican …
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The John Slidell Mission : Mexico 1845-1846
… the diplomatic mission of John Slidell to Mexico in the period before the outbreak of the Mexican War. Sent by President James K. Polk, Slidell ostensibly had a dual purpose: to repair the damage to U.S.-Mexican relations created by the annexation of Texas, and to purchase a large portion …
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Domestic Violence and Empire: Legacies of Conquest in Mexican American Writing
… taken for the Bancroft project on California history. The second chapter examines how the historical romance genre incorporates scenes of domestic violence against women's protected space in the home and nation. The third chapter reveals how representations of domestic violence within Mexico …
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From a “Contagious” to a “Poisonous Yellow Peril”?: Japanese and Japanese Americans in Public Health and Agriculture, 1890s – 1950.
… challenges the nation-bound paradigm within the history of American public health and agriculture by examining how the "contagious and poisonous yellow peril" image applied first to Chinese immigrants was also imposed on plants, insects, bodies, and pathogens from Japan in the late nineteenth …