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Mexico's Ruins

Author : Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández
Publisher : State University of New York Press
ISBN 13 : 0791480828
Total Pages : 230 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (914 download)

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Download or read book Mexico's Ruins written by Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2012-02-01 with total page 230 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At face value, the concept of modernity seems to reference a stream of social and historical traffic headed down a utopian one-way street named "progress." Mexico's Ruins examines modernity in twentieth-century Mexican culture as a much more ambiguous concept, arguing that such a single-minded notion is inadequate to comprehend the complexity of modern Mexico's national projects and their reception by the nation's citizenry. Instead, through the trope of modernity as ruin, author Raúl Rodríguez-Hernández explores the dilemma presented by the etymology of "ruins": a simultaneous falling down and rising up, a confluence of opposing forces at work on the skyline of the metropolis since 1968. He focuses on artists and writers of the generación de medio siglo, like Juan García Ponce, and envisions both the tales of modernity and their storytellers in a new light. The arts, literature, and architecture of twentieth-century Mexico are all examined in this cross-cultural and interdisciplinary book.

The Ruins

Author : Scott Smith
Publisher : Vintage
ISBN 13 : 0307266044
Total Pages : 385 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (72 download)

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Download or read book The Ruins written by Scott Smith and published by Vintage. This book was released on 2006-07-18 with total page 385 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: NATIONAL BESTSELLER • Trapped in the Mexican jungle, a group of friends stumble upon a creeping horror unlike anything they could ever imagine in "the best horror novel of the new century" (Stephen King). Also a major motion picture! Two young couples are on a lazy Mexican vacation—sun-drenched days, drunken nights, making friends with fellow tourists. When the brother of one of those friends disappears, they decide to venture into the jungle to look for him. What started out as a fun day-trip slowly spirals into a nightmare when they find an ancient ruins site ... and the terrifying presence that lurks there. "The Ruins does for Mexican vacations what Jaws did for New England beaches.” —Entertainment Weekly “Smith’s nail-biting tension is a pleasure all its own.... This stuff isn’t for the faint of heart.” —New York Post “A story so scary you may never want to go on vacation, or dig around in your garden, again.” —USA Today

The Pursuit of Ruins

Author : Christina Bueno
Publisher : University of New Mexico Press
ISBN 13 : 0826357334
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (263 download)

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Download or read book The Pursuit of Ruins written by Christina Bueno and published by University of New Mexico Press. This book was released on 2016-10-15 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Famous for its majestic ruins, Mexico has gone to great lengths to preserve and display the remains of its pre-Hispanic past. The Pursuit of Ruins argues that the government effort to take control of the ancient remains took off in the late nineteenth century during the dictatorship of Porfirio Díaz. Under Díaz Mexico acquired an official history more firmly rooted in Indian antiquity. This prestigious pedigree served to counter Mexico’s image as a backward, peripheral nation. The government claimed symbolic links with the great civilizations of pre-Hispanic times as it hauled statues to the National Museum and reconstructed Teotihuacán. Christina Bueno explores the different facets of the Porfirian archaeological project and underscores the contradictory place of indigenous identity in modern Mexico. While the making of Mexico’s official past was thought to bind the nation together, it was an exclusionary process, one that celebrated the civilizations of bygone times while disparaging contemporary Indians.

Ruins

Author : Peter Kuper
Publisher : SelfMadeHero
ISBN 13 : 9781906838980
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (389 download)

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Download or read book Ruins written by Peter Kuper and published by SelfMadeHero. This book was released on 2015-10-06 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Winner of the 2016 Eisner Award for Best Graphic Album Selected as an ALA Top Ten Graphic Novel of 2016 Samantha and George are a couple heading towards a sabbatical year in the quaint Mexican town of Oaxaca. For Samantha, it is the opportunity to revisit her past. For George, it is an unsettling step into the unknown. For both of them, it will be a collision course with political and personal events that will alter their paths and the town of Oaxaca forever. In tandem, the remarkable and arduous journey that a Monarch butterfly endures on its annual migration from Canada to Mexico is woven into Ruins. This creates a parallel picture of the challenges of survival in our ever-changing world. Ruins explores the shadows and light of Mexico through its past and present as encountered by an array of characters. The real and surreal intermingle to paint an unforgettable portrait of life south of the Rio Grande.

Aztec Ruins on the Animas

Author : Robert Hill Lister
Publisher : Western National Parks Association
ISBN 13 : 9781877856594
Total Pages : 132 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (565 download)

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Download or read book Aztec Ruins on the Animas written by Robert Hill Lister and published by Western National Parks Association. This book was released on 1996 with total page 132 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A lavishly illustrated account of the well-preserved ancestral Puebloan site of Aztec Ruins. The Listers document not only the history, excavation and preservation of the site but also its significance in the world of Chaco Canyon, Mesa Verde, and Salmon Ruins. Earl Morris's contribution to the research and preservation of Aztec Ruins is prominently featured.

The Leading Facts of New Mexican History

Author : Ralph Emerson Twitchell
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 726 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Leading Facts of New Mexican History written by Ralph Emerson Twitchell and published by . This book was released on 1917 with total page 726 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

This Day In North American Indian History

Author : Phil Konstantin
Publisher : Da Capo Press, Incorporated
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 488 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book This Day In North American Indian History written by Phil Konstantin and published by Da Capo Press, Incorporated. This book was released on 2002-10-16 with total page 488 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This one-of-a-kind, fun-to-read book covers over 5,000 years of North American Indian history, culture, and lore. Wide-ranging and in-depth, it lists over 5,000 important events involving the native peoples of North America in a unique day-by-day format. Photos.

Ruins of Modernity

Author : Julia Hell
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822390744
Total Pages : 530 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Ruins of Modernity written by Julia Hell and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-19 with total page 530 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Images of ruins may represent the raw realities created by bombs, natural disasters, or factory closings, but the way we see and understand ruins is not raw or unmediated. Rather, looking at ruins, writing about them, and representing them are acts framed by a long tradition. This unique interdisciplinary collection traces discourses about and representations of ruins from a richly contextualized perspective. In the introduction, Julia Hell and Andreas Schönle discuss how European modernity emerged partly through a confrontation with the ruins of the premodern past. Several contributors discuss ideas about ruins developed by philosophers such as Immanuel Kant, Georg Simmel, and Walter Benjamin. One contributor examines how W. G. Sebald’s novel The Rings of Saturn betrays the ruins erased or forgotten in the Hegelian philosophy of history. Another analyzes the repressed specter of being bombed out of existence that underpins post-Second World War modernist architecture, especially Le Corbusier’s plans for Paris. Still another compares the ways that formerly dominant white populations relate to urban-industrial ruins in Detroit and to colonial ruins in Namibia. Other topics include atomic ruins at a Nevada test site, the connection between the cinema and ruins, the various narratives that have accrued around the Inca ruin of Vilcashuamán, Tolstoy’s response in War and Peace to the destruction of Moscow in the fire of 1812, the Nazis’ obsession with imperial ruins, and the emergence in Mumbai of a new “kinetic city” on what some might consider the ruins of a modernist city. By focusing on the concept of ruin, this collection sheds new light on modernity and its vast ramifications and complexities. Contributors. Kerstin Barndt, Jon Beasley-Murray, Russell A. Berman, Jonathan Bolton, Svetlana Boym, Amir Eshel, Julia Hell, Daniel Herwitz, Andreas Huyssen, Rahul Mehrotra, Johannes von Moltke, Vladimir Paperny, Helen Petrovsky, Todd Presner, Helmut Puff, Alexander Regier, Eric Rentschler, Lucia Saks, Andreas Schönle, Tatiana Smoliarova, George Steinmetz, Jonathan Veitch, Gustavo Verdesio, Anthony Vidler

Legislative Document

Author : New York (State). Legislature
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 952 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Legislative Document written by New York (State). Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 952 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report

Author : American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report written by American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the Legislature of the State of New York

Author : American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 632 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book Annual Report of the American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society to the Legislature of the State of New York written by American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 632 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

New York Legislative Documents

Author : New York (State). Legislature
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 958 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (3 download)

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Download or read book New York Legislative Documents written by New York (State). Legislature and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 958 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Report

Author : American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (21 download)

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Download or read book Report written by American Scenic and Historic Preservation Society and published by . This book was released on 1923 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient America in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. Baldwin

Author : John Denison Baldwin
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 342 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Ancient America in Notes on American Archaeology by John D. Baldwin written by John Denison Baldwin and published by . This book was released on 1872 with total page 342 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Roadside Guide to Indian Ruins & Rock Art of the Southwest

Author : Gordon Sullivan
Publisher : Big Earth Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9781565794818
Total Pages : 258 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (948 download)

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Download or read book Roadside Guide to Indian Ruins & Rock Art of the Southwest written by Gordon Sullivan and published by Big Earth Publishing. This book was released on 2005 with total page 258 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: At archeological sites throughout Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona and Utah, the ancient inhabitants of the American Southwest have left a rich legacy built and etched in stone - places to witness sheer ingenuity and pay tribute to the roots of Native American culture. With color photographs, maps, and detailed entries, this handsome volume spotlights the most accessible, visitor-friendly sites to explore. Also included are suggested travel routes for those wishing to tour multiple sites.

Mexico as I Saw it

Author : Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel)
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 628 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Mexico as I Saw it written by Mrs. Alec-Tweedie (Ethel) and published by . This book was released on 1901 with total page 628 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Explorer's Guide Mexico City, Puebla & Cuernavaca: A Great Destination

Author : Zain Deane
Publisher : The Countryman Press
ISBN 13 : 1581579004
Total Pages : 344 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (815 download)

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Download or read book Explorer's Guide Mexico City, Puebla & Cuernavaca: A Great Destination written by Zain Deane and published by The Countryman Press. This book was released on 2011-09-09 with total page 344 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A complete guide to the populous Mexican capitol and surrounding areas. Welcome to Mexico City, the oldest city in the Americas and one of the most fascinating cities in the world. Zain Dean introduces you to its unique mix of ancient empire and modern, sophisticated society: “If you’re willing to brave its often misunderstood exterior,” he writes, “you’ll be rewarded by a city that has been fascinating adventurers, wanderers, and explorers for thousands of years.” Mexico’s capital and its environs offer pre-Hispanic ruins and magnificent temples, as well as ritzy retreats, spectacular volcanoes, and picturesque historic areas. You’ll also find dining, shopping, and accommodations to suit every budget. Sections thoughtfully and thoroughly cover the myths and realities of travel in Mexico, language and monetary concerns, and health and safety issues. More than 100 photographs and detailed maps round out the package, making this guidebook an indispensable resource.