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The history of medicine and public health and welfare in Mexico through the mid-twentieth century.

A perceptive examination of the Mexican reality as revealed through the nation's novel.

A twentieth-century Mexican philosopher considers the culture of his native land.

The actions and reflections of the forty-sixth viceroy of New Spain, a cautious and conservative man, as they relate to certain major problems of his administration.

The exciting and important history of the Mexican Indians who founded Tenochtitlan and who created from it what is known as the Aztec empire.

The first study of social processes in contemporary highland Maya communities to encompass a regional view of the highlands of Chiapas as a system.

This book traces the development of the response to the human dilemma in the works of the Argentine writer Ezequiel Martinez Estrada,

A towering Mexican thinker discusses both Latin America's internal problems and its relations with the United States, Russia, and the rest of the world.

This volume explores the interactions between the elites and the lower classes of Latin America through the divergent perspectives of three eminent historians.

How political, social, and aesthetic changes made their way into the essayistic writings of twenty-six Spanish American intellectuals.

This novel tells the story of a would-be utopian community built on an old plantation of the outskirts of Sao Paulo, Brazil.

In these revealing interviews, first published in 1988 as Historias intimas, ten of Latin America's most important women writers explore this question with scholar Magdalena Garcia Pinto, discussing the personal, social, and political factors that have sh

This study of Dario's poetry demonstrates that esoteric tradition is central to Modernism and that an understanding of this centrality clarifies both the nature of the movement and its relationship to earlier European literature.

This book brings together Ortega's most penetrating and insightful analyses of the fiction of Borges, Fuentes, Garcia Marquez, Carpentier, Rulfo, Cabrera Infante, and others responsible for great writing from Spanish America.

This biography is the first comprehensive exploration of the life and works of Guillermo Cabrera Infante.

Rosario Castellanos was emerging as one of Mexico's major literary figures before her untimely death in 1974; this sampler of her work brings together her major poems, short fiction, essays, and a three-act play.

These two novels by one of Mexico's premier writers illuminate many aspects of contemporary Mexican life.

How humor is used in religious rituals in three Mayan communities.

This novel is the diary of a thoughtful man facing the imminent prospect of death and trying to find the meaning of life.

This deceptively simple novel, published in Mexico in 1966 as La casa en la playa and here translated into English for the first time, is an important work by one of Mexico's, and indeed Latin America's, major writers of the twentieth century.

These are the recollections of Alexandre-of his life, his death-in-life, and his ultimate death, as they are played out against the mobile tapestry of the valley where he was born.

The memoir of a Mexican politician's youth during the Revolution.

An English translation of the greatest work of a man regarded by many as Mexico's most important novelist.

A novel about a passionate woman who lacks the money to establish herself in the liberated, bohemian society she craves.

This collection of nearly all of Salvador Novo's Aztec-related writings,taken together, provides a delightful introduction to Novo's later works and a light-hearted, historically accurate introduction to Aztec culture.

';A frequently fascinating and probably fairly accurate insight into the most controversial character of the Mexican Revolution.' Time Martn Luis Guzmn, eminent historian of Mexico, knew and traveled with Pancho Villa at various times during the Revolution. When many years later some of Villa's private papers, records, and what was apparently the beginning of an autobiography came into Guzmn's hands, he was ideally suited to blend all these into an authentic account of the Revolution as Pancho Villa saw it, and of the General's life as known only to Villa himself. This is Villa's story, his account of how it all began when as a peasant boy of sixteen he shot a rich landowner threatening the honor of his sister. This lone, starved refugee hiding out in the mountains became the scourge of the Mexican Revolution, the leader of thousands of men, and the hero of the masses of the poor. The assault on Ciudad Jurez in 1911, the battles of Tierra Blanca, of Torreon, of Zacatecas, of Celaya, all are here, told with a feeling of great immediacy. This volume ends as Villa and Obregon prepare to engage each other in the war between victorious generals into which the Revolution degenerated before it finally ended. The Memoirs were first published in Mexico in 1951, where they were extremely popular. This volumetranslated by Virginia H. Taylorwas the first English publication. ';This biographical history presents as revealing a historical portrait of the Revolution as the author's earlier historical novel, The Eagle and the Serpent.' The Hispanic American Historical Review

The acclaimed author of Garca Mrquez delivers ';a compulsively readable account of the life and works of our greatest . . . writer of fantasy' (New York Daily News). Since its first publication in 1981, Borges and His Fiction has introduced the life and works of this Argentinian master-writer to an entire generation of students, high school and college teachers, and general readers. Responding to a steady demand for an updated edition, Gene H. Bell-Villada has significantly revised and expanded the book to incorporate new information that has become available since Borges' death in 1986. In particular, he offers a more complete look at Borges and Peronism and Borges' personal experiences of love and mysticism, as well as revised interpretations of some of Borges' stories. As before, the book is divided into three sections that examine Borges' life, his stories in Ficciones and El Aleph, and his place in world literature. ';Of the scores of Borges studies by now published in English, Bell-Villada's excellent book stands out as one of the freshest and most generally helpful . . . Lay readers and specialists alike will find his book a valuable and highly readable companion to Ficciones and El Aleph.' Choice

';Parker has used recently declassified American materials and interviews... to reconstruct the steps that led to the creation of Operation Brother Sam.' The American Historical Review When the Brazilian military overthrew President Joo Goulart in 1964, American diplomats characterized the coup as a ';100 percent Brazilian movement.' It has since become apparent, largely through government documents declassified during the course of research for this book, that the United States had an invisible but pervasive part in the coup. Relying principally on documents from the Johnson and Kennedy presidential libraries, Phyllis Parker unravels the events of the coup in fascinating detail. The evidence she presents is corroborated by interviews with key participants. US interference in the Goulart regime began when normal diplomatic pressure failed to produce the desired enthusiasm from him for the Alliance of Progress. Political and economic manipulations also proving ineffective, the United States stood ready to back a military takeover of Brazil's constitutional democracy. US operation ';Brother Sam' involved shipments of petroleum, a naval task force, and tons of arms and ammunition in preparation for intervention during the 1964 coup. When the Brazilian military gained control without calling on the ready assistance, U.S. policy makers immediately accorded recognition to the new government and set in motion plans for economic support.