New Mexico Books

This text is ideal for undergraduate and graduate students/faculty in Rhetoric, Composition, English, Chicano/a Studies, American Indian & Mesoamerican Studies, and Postcolonial Studies.

I grew up in Mexico and I grew up reading this book. To revist its light prose, delicately drawn village and carefully delineated shadows was an incredible pleasure. I'm so glad I have this copy in my possesion, I've missed it.
I wish I knew more about Josephina Nigli, though.

The Mexican War Correspondence of Richard Smith Elliott, edited and annotated by Mark L. Gardner and Marc Simmons, University of Oklahoma Press, 1997, xi + 292 pgs. The book consists of what the title says it does, plus some useful material written later by Elliott but appropriately inserted by the editors. Elliott was an elected Lieutenant in the Laclede Rangers which was a unit from St. Louis and a part of the Missouri Volunteers, in turn a part of Kearny1s Army of the West during the Mexican War. Irregularly, from May 1846 to July of the next year, Elliott sent dispatches back to the St. Louis Daily Reveille, writing as John Brown. In brief, Lt. Elliott with his outfit went from his home to Santa Fe, where with few exceptions, he remained throughout his term of enlistment. Compared to many other soldiers of that time, he led an easy life. (After all, many of us pay to live in Santa Fe, although arguably the amenities may be somewhat better than they were 150 years ago.) However, Elliott's descriptions of the marches, Bent's Fort, Santa Fe and its inhabitants including the native ladies, are most interesting, as are his opinions of some of his associates and high-ranking commanders. The Introduction is helpful and the notes, we think, are the main achievement of the editors: erudite, expansive as need be, and interesting on their own ‹ as you might expect from those two well-known historians. Notes are what turns diaries or dispatches into histories; in this case a valuable piece of New Mexico history and an excellent view of a minuscule part of the Mexican War.

This series is great for emergent readers and ESOL students. I really appreciate these authors for the service they have done in writing these books.

I'm not that fond of Lázaro Cárdenas or his legacy, but this book showed me a different side of him that made me realize he was a far more complex, shrewd, practical and wiser man than I initially thought him to be.

However slanted the author's appraisal of his subject may seem to me (I'm sorry but Mr. Cárdenas was more of a cacique than a democrat, if he ever was one), the book is full of facts, many of them unknown to most Mexicans, and makes an interesting reading. I thoroughly enjoyed it!

Mexico Way is an excellent read. The plot is believeable and the action gripping. Jim Kreeger is very credible as an aging, but savvy CIA COS. So are all the other characters. The book exposes both Mexican and Belt Way politics for what they often are: corrupt and self-serving. Throughout the book, I often asked myself: could this really happen? And the answer was almost always YES. Moss does an excellent job of fleshing out both the plot and the characters. Looking for more Moss works now.

The French photographer, Henri Cartier-Bresson travelled to Mexico as a member of an expedition that planned to work on the Pan-American Highway. When the project collapsed, Cartier-Bresson decided to stay on in Mexico where he became friends with the gifted Mexican photographer Manuel Alvarez Bravo. In 1935, Mexico's principle art museum, El Palacio de Bellas Artes organized a show entitled, "Fotografias Cartier-Bresson-Alvarez Bravo." The American writer Langston Hughes wrote the text for the catalogue.

When the show ended in Mexico City, the avant garde gallery owner Julien Levy brought the exhibit to New York City. Levy had the brilliant idea of adding the American photographer Walker Evans to the exhibition. Thus the works of three of great Modernist photographers of the 1930's were brought together under one roof. The photographs presented in this book have become iconic images and will be instantly familiar to students of the era.

Sixty seven years after the New York show to commemorate the celebration of Alvarez Bravo's Centenary Birthday, the curators of the Palacio de Bellas Artes decided to bring the works of these three masters together once again. This book is the catalogue of that celebration. Not many art books are published in Mexico. However, when books are released, the publishers create beautiful collector's editions. This is high quality production with beautiful photographs printed on the best quality paper. This modestly priced book is a must purchase for all lovers of Modernist photography. This is a highly recommended book that will become collectable in time.

Recommended for anyone who has an interest in Mexican art.

this book was a gift for my parents who traveled to Michigan and enjoyed their trip imensely, they got to reminise about all the amazing places that they visited. They were very excited about recieving the book.

Reminiscent of both Jacob Riis' How the Other Half Lives and James Agee and Walker Evans' Let Us Now Praise Famous Men, Rick Nahmias' The Migrant Project is a revelatory and provocative book. Nahmias' black and white photographs of California migrant workers are haunting and starkly beautiful. The grinding poverty and arduous workplace conditions these people endure is heartbreaking and infuriating, yet their strength and dignity emerges in Nahmias' images and direct, unaffected prose. It's a deeply humanistic and necessary work of art that stays with you. Highly recommended!