Examines the history of economic problems in Mexico, looks at some of country's resources, and discusses attempts to boost the Mexican economy. Includes a chronology, glossary, and other references.
Provides a history of the people of Mexico, from the Olmecs, the first to leave a record of their culture, to the natives and mestizos, those of mixed-blood, who live in the cities and rural areas today.
The reader arrives in Mexico to explore a friend's disappearance amid the Mayan ruins and can choose between alternative adventures, each leading to thirty-nine possible endings.
Presents over one thousand articles on Native American cultures--including individual entries on more than 275 tribes--covering the history of the first inhabitants of Canada, the U.S., and Mesoamerica, as well as contemporary issues that affect them.
Two cousins, one in Mexico and one in New York City, write to each other and learn that even though their daily lives differ, the boys are very similar at heart.
Tells the life story of sixteenth-century Spanish explorer Hern?n Cort?s, chronicling the conquest of the Aztec Empire, and includes a chronology, glossary, and further resource list.
Examines the life and work of Mexican muralist Diego Rivera, discussing his personal and political activities, his artistic development, and how the times in which he lived influenced his art.
Traces the chaos the ensured in the aftermath of the Mexican Revolution in the early 1900s that led to the creation of a new Mexican constitution in 1917.
