Insurgent Mexico

Reed, John, Insurgent Mexico, United States: Simon & Schuster, 1969.

Available online.

Wikipedia:

John Silas "Jack" Reed (October 22, 1887 – October 17, 1920) was an American journalist, poet, and socialist activist, best remembered for his first-hand account of the Bolshevik Revolution, Ten Days that Shook the World.
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In the autumn of 1913 John Reed was sent to Mexico by the Metropolitan Magazine to report the Mexican Revolution.[17] He shared the perils of Pancho Villa's army for four months, present with Villa's Constitutional (Constitutionalist) Army (whose "Primer Jefe" was Venustiano Carranza) when it defeated Federal forces at Torreón, opening the way for its advance on Mexico City.[18] Reed's time with the Villistas resulted in a series of outstanding magazine articles that brought Reed a national reputation as a war correspondent. Reed deeply sympathized with the plight of the peons and vehemently opposed American intervention, which came shortly after he left. Reed adored Villa, while Carranza left him cold. Reed's Mexican reports were later republished in book form as Insurgent Mexico, which appeared in 1914.

The Aztecs of Mexico: Origin, Rise and Fall of the Aztec Nation

Vaillant, George Clapp, The Aztecs of Mexico: Origin, Rise and Fall of the Aztec Nation, Harmondsworth, Middlesex: Penguin Books, 1951.

Available at Questia.

See also American Anthropologist © 1945.

Wikipedia:

George Clapp Vaillant (April 5, 1901, – May 13, 1945) was an American anthropologist.
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Vaillant was known for the reconstruction of the early stages of Mexican Culture. His excavations at Zacatenco, Ticomán and El Arbollo established the framework for the Formative or Preclassic period in central Mexico. He was also known for his synthesis of Aztec history, which is also written in Aztecs in Mexico. Throughout his research of relating archaeology to the events and descriptions of colonial sources and Mexican traditions, Vaillant concentrated on problems of chronology and culture history. Later in his career Vaillant excavated at several Aztec sites (Chiconautla and Nonoalco), but failed to publish these projects. Several decades later Christina Elson and other scholars at the American Museum of Natural History completed the study of artifacts from these sites and began a program to publish them.

From the Foreword:

This book is a history of the Indians of the Valley of Mexico and the civilizations which they wrought. It was a hard book to write. It will be a hard book to read. There are two reasons for this unfortunate circumstance. First, the Indians did not have the same goals in life that we have, so that their pattern of life is different from our own and difficult to understand. Second, Indian history has to be reconstructed from what we can find, so that much of the material, like techniques of making household implements, does not fall within the scope of our usual historical reading. The first four chapters deal with such reconstruction, and the reader is warned in advance that the going will be very difficult. These pages may be skipped if he is not particularly interested in such a historical background. The remaining chapters are based on contemporary observations made by conquering Spaniards and by the Aztecs themselves.

Mexico South: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec

Covarrubias, Miguel, Mexico South: The Isthmus of Tehuantepec, New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1954.

Available online.

Reviewed in the American Sociological Review © 1947.

Reviewed in the American Anthropologist © 1947.

From the book-cover:

”The Isthmus of Tehuantepec is a bottleneck of jungle and brush shared in equal parts by the states of Vera Cruz and Oaxaca, separating rather than uniting four important states – Yucatan, Campeche, Tabasco, and Chiapas – from the rest of Mexico. It is the true natural frontier between mountain chains that run down the Continent and break into low hills with narrow passes that have been, since the days of Cortes, a focus of interest, oft-renewed, as a means of communication between the Atlantic and the Pacific Oceans.” Thus Covarrubias. The means by which he has evoked the very nature of that region are geography, ethnology, anthropology, archaeology, history, economics, plastic arts, literature, music, folklore, religion, food, drink, sexual customs, and a dozen others. The result is a brilliant evocation of an entire civilization, throwing light upon the history and culture of all Mexico.

Incidents of Travel in Yucatan

Stephens, John L., Incidents of Travel in Yucatan, Vols. I & II, New York: Dover Publications, 1963.

Available online: Vol. 1, and Vol. 2.

Wikipedia:

John Lloyd Stephens (November 28, 1805 – October 13, 1852) was an American explorer, writer, and diplomat. Stephens was a pivotal figure in the rediscovery of Maya civilization throughout Middle America and in the planning of the Panama railroad.

The Netherlands, French and British Areas of the Caribbean

Institute of Caribbean Studies, The Netherlands, French and British Areas of the Caribbean, (Study done for the United States-Puerto Rico Commission on the Status of Puerto Rico), Rio Piedras: University of Puerto Rico, January, 1966.(2 copies)

See also THIS.

Table of Contents:

Preface.

Map of the Caribbean.

I. Overview and Summary, by Thomas G. Mathews.

II. Country Papers:

A. The Netherlands.
1. The economic background of the Netherlands Antilles, by Fuat M. Andic, Suphan Andic & Gregorio F. Tromp (assistant)
2. The economic background of Surinam, by Fuat M. Andic & Suphan Andic
3. The Charter of the Kingdom of the Netherlands, by Thomas G. Mathews
4. The government and politics of the Netherlands Antilles, by Thomas G. Mathews
5. The political conditions in Surinam, by Thomas G. Mathews & Tjark Petzoldt (consultant)

B. France.
1. The economic background of the French Antilles, by Fuat M. Andic & Suphan Andic
2. The political status of the French Caribbean, by Gérard Latortue & Annette J. Biscombe (translator)

C. Great Britain.
1. Jamaica, Trinidad-Tobago, and the British West Indies, by Thomas G. Mathews
2. Prospects for Federation in the British Leeward and Windward Islands, by M.S. Joshua & Annette J. Biscombe

Selected Bibliography.

From Dr. Thomas G. Mathews’ Preface:

The Institute of Caribbean Studies was established by the University of Puerto Rico in 1958 as a center for study and research. Although administratively a part of the University’s Faculty of the Social Sciences, the Institute is also active in the fields of the humanities and education. The objectives of the Institute of Caribbean Studies are (1) to encourage, support and serve as a center for scholarly research and exchange in the Caribbean; (2) to give disciplinary training to Caribbean specialists; (3) to stimulate interest in the Caribbean among university students, both Puerto Rican and visiting, offering them preliminary training and, when possible supporting them in advanced studies. The work of the Institute is supported in part by a grant from the Ford Foundation for the period 1963 – 1968.

A Comprehensive Agricultural Program for Puerto Rico

Koenig, Nathan, A Comprehensive Agricultural Program for Puerto Rico, Washington D.C.: U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1953.[Two copies - one hardcover and a softcover]

Reviewed in Journal of Farm Economics © 1954.

Cited in The ANNALS of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.

From the Introduction:

This is a study of problems of people and their land in an area where both people and land long have been underemployed and also under-nourished.
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The study points out that if the economic base of the island is to be effectively broadened and strengthened, it is essential that far more attention be given to diversifying and increasing production for local needs to the full extent that it is economically feasible while at the same time maximizing economic production for export. While agriculture, directly or indirectly, provides about 40 percent of Puerto Rico’s total net income, the mainstay of the economy is the growing of sugarcane and the production of sugar. More than two-fifths of the total cropland and most of the best soils are planted to this single crop from which is derived a little more than one-half the value of farm production
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Since a great deal of land in Puerto Rico is still concentrated in the hands of a relatively few owners, the study urges that the program of divesting corporations of land holdings that are in violation of the 500-acre limitation be carried to completion by the Land Authority….

Selected Trends and Issues in Contemporary Federal and Regional Relations

Friedrich, Carl J., Selected Trends and Issues in Contemporary Federal and Regional Relations, (Study done for the United States-Puerto Rico Commission on the Status of Puerto Rico), Unknown binding, December, 1965.

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Carl Joachim Friedrich (born June 5, 1901 in Leipzig; died on September 19, 1984 in Lexington, Massachusetts) was a German-American professor and political theorist. His writings on Law and Constitutionalism made him one the world's leading political scientists in the post-World War II period. He is one of the most influential scholars of Totalitarianism.