The North American Institute - State of New Mexico

The Wirth Trinational Library

A selection of texts available at NAMI's Santa Fe offices.

AUTHOR	TITLE	PUBLISHER	ISBN NUMBER	PAGES	COPIES	DESCRIPTION

Aguilar Camin, Hector	La frontera nomada: Sonora y la Revolucion Mexicana	Cal y Arena Cuauhtemoc; 1997	ISBN: 968-493-300-2	623 pages	1 copy	La frontera nomada presents the true history of those who took up arms in defense of their land, which contributed to the uprising that became the Mexican Revolution.

Agustin, Jose	Tragicomedia Mexicana 2: La Vida en Mexico de 1970 a 1988	Espejo de Mexico. Mexico; 1992.	ISBN: 968-406-305-9	293 pages	1 copy	This second volume of Tragicomedia Mexicana provides a detailed account of issues surrounding Mexican society, politics, economics, environment, religion, and everything else in between from 1970 to 1988.

Baker, George	Mexico's Petroleum Sector: Performance and Prospects.	PennWell Books, Tulsa; 1984.	ISBN: 0-87814-237-1	290 pages	1 copy	In Mexico's Petroleum Sector--Performance and Prospects, George Baker examines Mexico's state-dominated oil industry and how its philosophy and political/organizational situations can influence U.S. energy policies and institutions.

Barry, Tom	Zapata's Revenge: Free Trade and the Farm Crisis in Mexico.	South End Press. Boston; 1995.	ISBN: 0-89608-499-x (pbk)	317 pages	1 copy	In Zapata's Revenge, Tom Barry views the crisis that confronts Mexico as alarming evidence of the incapacity of neoliberal and free trade policies to foster broad economic development. Barry shows that such policies have resulted in reduced food security, environmental destruction, increased rural-urban polarization, depopulation of peasant communities, and social and political instability.

Blum Valenzuela, Roberto.	De la politica Mexicana y sus medios. Deterioro institucional o Nuevo pacto politico.	Centro de Investigacion para el Desarrollo A.C. and Muguel Angel Porrua. Mexico, D.F. 1996.	ISBN: 968-842-561-3	114 pages	1 copy	This book looks at the characteristics of the Mexican political system and how they have affected the political scene in the country over time.

Borja, Arturo.	El Estado y el Desarrollo Industrial. La Politica Mexicana de Computo en una Perspectiva Comparada.	Miguel Angel Porrua and CIDE. Mexico; 1995.	ISBN: 968-842-517-6	301 pages	1 copy	This book provides and theoretical analysis of how the Mexican state reacted to the technology boom in the 1980s and the role of the state in the subsequent development of local computer production.

Bonfil Batalla, Guillermo	Mexico Profundo: Una Civilizacion Negada.	Grijalbo, S.A. Miguel Hidalgo, 1987.	ISBN: 968-419-929-5	250 pages	1 copy	In this text Guillermo Bonfil Batalla addresses the need to alter the historical pattern of ignoring the indigenous peoples of Mexico and integrate them into the development of the nation. The author is making a call for a new Mexico that includes the multitude of cultures that exist within the country.

Bowden, Charles, Preface by Noam Chomsky, Afterward by Eduardo Galeano.	Juarez, the laboratory of our future.	Aperture Books: New York, 1998.	ISBN: 0-89381-7767	135 pages	1 copy	This work of photojournalism explores the literal and symbolic edge of Mexico's border with the United States. The expressive and often brutal photos and the accompanying essays document maquiladora life, the narcotics industry, gang violence, the sex trade, and daily occurrence of death, which together expose the underbelly of industrial development.

Brown, Jonathan C.	Oil and Revolution in Mexico.	University of California Press. Los Angeles, 1993.	ISBN:0-520-07934-5 (alk. Paper)	453 pages	1 copy	Oil and Revolution will engage a wide variety of readers, as it explores the presence of foreign oil companies in Mexico between 1880 and 1920 and how they contributed to the social and political breakdown leading up to the Revolution in 1910.

Burckhalter, David., Essays by Gary Nabhan and Thomas E. Sheridan.	La Vida Nortena: Photographs of Sonora, Mexico.	University of New Mexico Press: Albuquerque, 1998.	ISBN: 0-8263-1849-5 (pbk)	53 pages	1 copy	The black and white photos along with the accompanying essays found within La Vida Nortena capture the juxtaposition of the Inidan-Mestizo cultures that are under pressure from population growth, consumerism, and economic change but are still able to remain rooted in third traditions.

Cabrero Mendoza, Enrique., Con la colaboracion de Rodolfo Garcia del Castillo y Martha Gutierrez Mendoza.	La Nueva Gestion Municipal en Mexico. Analisis de Experiencias Innovadoras en Goviernos Locales.	Miguel Angel Porrua and CIDE: Mexico, 1995.	ISBN: 968-842-549-4	381 pages	1 copy	This book explores the new role of local government in the politics of Mexico. Enrique Cabrero Mendoza suggests that the governmental pyramid is shifting to allow local governments to collectively have a larger say in what takes place at the federal level.

Cerutti, Mario and Oscar Flores.	Espanoles en el Norte de Mexico: Propietarios, empresarios y diplomacia (1850-1920).	Universidad Autonoma de Nuevo Leon y la Universidad de Monterrey: Monterrey.	OUT OF PRINT	274 pages	1 copy	Espanoles en el norte de Mexico part of a collection of volumes that make up a series entitled La Historia Economica de Norte de Mexico. This book, volume four, looks directly at the role of the Spanish dominated business sector in the north of Mexico between 1850 and 1920. Out of Print.

Cornelius, Wayne A. and Ann L. Craig	The Mexican Political System in Transition	The Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of California San Diego: 1991.	ISBN:1-878367-04-8	0	1 copy	This book explores the many aspects of the Mexican political system--history, institutions, representation, pillars of the regime, and future--as they relate to Mexico's political transition.

Daudelin, Jean and Edgar J. Dosman. Ed.	Beyond Mexico	Carleton University Press and Canadian Foundation for the Americas: Canada, 1995	ISBN: 0-88629-249-2 (hbk); ISBN: 0-88629-251-4 (pbk)	258 pages	1 copy	Beyond Mexico is a timely assessment of the dynamic state and prospects of Canada's relations with Latin America. In the well-documented, policy-relevant and accessible study, specialists address the challenges raised by non-governmental organizations, security and human rights issues, inter-municipal exchange programs, Canada's membership in the Organization of American States, and by successive crises in Haiti.

Hernandez, Zavier and Jordi Ballonga, and Joseph Escofet.	San Rafael: a Central American City Through the Ages.	Houghton Mifflin Company: Boston, 1992.	ISBN: 0-395-60645-4	61 pages	1 copy	Through detailed illustrations, this book depicts the development, collapse and subsequent European domination of a Central American indigenous civilization. The civilization of San Rafael was both the protagonist and witness to the collision between Europe and the New World.

Florescano, Enrique	El Nuevo Pasado Mexicano.	Cal y Arena: Cuauhtemoc, 1991.	ISBN: 968-493-222-7	229 pages	2 copies	In this book, Mexican historian, Enrique Florescano presents a summary and analysis of the controversies and divergent interpretations of Mexico's ancient, nineteenth century, and revolutionary history that have arisen among the most recent generation of Mexican.

Florescano, Enrique	El mito de Quetzalcoatl	Fondo de cultura Economica, S.A.: Mexico, DF, 1993	ISBN: 968-16-3993-6	182 pages	1 copy	In this comprehensive study, Enrique Florescano traces the spread of the worship of the Plumed Serpent, and the multiplicity of interpretations that surround the god, by comparing the Palenque inscriptions (ca. A.D. 690), the Vienna Codex (pre-Hispanic conquest), the Historia de los Mexicanos (1531), the Popul Vuh (ca. 1554), and numerous other texts. He also consults and reproduces archeological evidence from Mexico, Guatemala, El Salvador, and Nicaragua, demonstrating how the myth of Quetzalcoatl extends throughout Mesoamerica.

Fuentes, Carlos	El Espejo Enterrado	Tierra Firme: 1992.	ISBN: 968-16-3788-7	440 pages	1 copy	In Mexican novelist and statesman, Carlos Fuentes’ El Espejo Enterrado, the mirror is used as the guiding metaphor to explore Spanish America’s love-hate relationship with Spain and its search for an identity in multicultural roots. In this beautifully illustrated survey, the reader discovers Fuentes belief that a common cultural heritage can help the countries of Latin America transcend disunity and fragmentation.

Garcia Canclini, Nestor	Las culturas populares en el capitalismo	Nueva Imagen SA, Mexico; 1982.	ISBN: 968-429-318-6	224 pages	1 copy	This book provides an anthropological and sociological theoretical analysis surrounding the role of capitalism in cultural processes.

Grayson, George W.	Oil and Mexican Foreign Policy	University of Pittsburgh Press: Pittsburgh, 1988.	ISBN: 0-82293574-0	207 pages	1 copy	Oil and Mexican Foreign Policy presents Mexico's contemporary place and role in the international community through an analysis of how the dramatic changes in the oil industry shaped Mexican foreign policy in the 1980s.

Krauze, Enrique. Translated by Hank Heifetz	Mexico: Biography of Power: A History of Modern Mexico, 1810-1996	Harper Collins Publishers: New York, 1997.	ISBN: 0-06-016325-9; ISBN: 0-06-092917-0 (pbk)	871 pages	1 copy	This book is a history of Mexico in which the principal protagonist is history itself--the many forms in which the past has not disappeared but has persisted within the memories and day-to-day reality of the Mexican people.

Lajous, Roberta	Mexico y el Mundo: Historia de sus relaciones exteriores, Tomo IV	Senado de la Republica: 1990.	ISBN 968-7209-83-6 (Completa); ISBN: 968-7209-87-9 (Tomo IV)	184 pages	1 copy	Mexico y el mundo surveys and draws conclusions from Mexico's historical relations with the Americas, Europe, and Japan.

Mendoza Berrueto, Eliseo. Coordinador	Federalismo, Ecologia y Administracion Municipal	El Colegio de la Frontera Norte, Tijuana; 1996	ISBN: 9686075-64-x	126 pages	1 copy	Federalismo, Ecologia Y Administracion Municipal draws from the research of experts in ecology in order to provide an overview of environmental management by local governments.

Meyer, Lorenzo	La Segunda muerte de la Revolucion Mexicana	Cal y Arena, Cuauhtemoc; 1992.	ISBN: 968-493-230-8	107 pages	1 copy	In this book, Lorenzo Meyer presents the realities of Mexico's failed promises to establish social justice and industrial development that is protected by the state. He argues that in order to guarantee a better future fro Mexico, presidential power must decrease, while the viability of the political party and the electoral systems must increase.

Middlebrook, Kevin J. and Eduardo Zepeda	Confronting Development: Assessing Mexico's Economic and Social Policy Challenges.	Stanford University Press, Stanford; 2003.	ISBN: 0-8047-4589-7 (cloth); ISBN: 0-8047-4720-2 (pbk)	616 pages	1 copy	In this book, twenty-three contributors provide a comprehensive, interdisciplinary assessment of the principal economic and social policies adopted by Mexico during the 1980s and 1990s. This is an important text in the continuing debates about options open to developing countries.

Morales, Isidro and Cecilia Escalante and Rosio Vargas	La Formacion de la Politica Petrolera en Mexico: 1970-1986	El Colegio de Mexico, Pedregal de Sta. Teresa; 1988.	ISBN: 968-12-0390-9	277 pages	1 copy	This book looks at the politics surrounding the oil industry in Mexico between 1970 and 1986.

Moyano Pahissa, Angela	Frontera: Asi se hizo la frontera norte	Ariel Divulgacion, Juarez; 1996.	ISBN: 968-6640-64-9	168 pages	1 copy	This text looks at the history and evolution of Mexico's northern border from a Mexican perspective.

Oppenheimer, Andres	Bordering on Chaos: Guerrillas, Stockbrokers, Politicians, and Mexico's Road to Prosperity	Little, Brown and Company (Canada) Ltd., Toronto; 1996.	ISBN: 0-316-65095-1	367 pages	2 copies	In this provocative book, award-winning journalist Andres Oppenheimer provides the answers to the questions surrounding dramatic events that have shaken Mexico in recent years. Beyond insights into Mexico's most recent crises, Bordering on Chaos takes a broader look into the country's past and future.

Orme Jr., William A.	A Culture of Collusion: An Inside Look at the Mexican Press	North South Center Press: University of Miami. Boulder; 1997.	ISBN: 1-57454-012-2	159 pages	1 copy	In this book, leading Mexican and U.S. journalists examine the "culture of collusion" that defines the complex relationship between the independent news media in Mexico and the PRI--a relationship that was sustained by subsidies, bribery, fear of violence, and mutual political convenience.

Orellana, Margarita.	La Mirada circular: el cine Norteamericano de la Revolucion Mexicana 1911-1917	Joaquin Mortiz, S.A. Col. Del Valle; 1991.	ISBN: 968-27-0397-2	300 pages	1 copy	This book includes memoir and newspaper reports that chart the progress of the documentary film-makers who went down to cover events of the Mexican Revolution. De Orellana's work reveals much about how Mexico was constructed in the American imagination and how the film images reinforced and justified American expansionism as well as racial and social prejudice.

Orme Jr., William A.	Understanding NAFTA: Mexico Free Trade and the New North America	University of Texas Press, Austin; 1996.	ISBN:0-292-76046-9	335 pages	1 copy	This book brings together experts in economics, sociology, anthropology, the humanities, the communications to explore the effects the North American Free Trade Agreement will have on the flow of cultural products among Mexico, the United States, and Canada.

Reyes Heroles, Federico.	Sondear a Mexico.	Oceano de Mexico, SA. Mexico; 1995.	ISBN: 968-6321-42-X	206 pages	1 copy	In Sondear a Mexico, federico Reyes Heroles analyzes the profound changes that have been taking place in Mexico and have created a new Mexico.

Perez de Salazar Verea, Francisco J.	Tecnologias de la Arquitectura con Tierra sin Conocimiento.	Universidad nacional Autonoma de Mexico, Mexico; 1989.	ISBN:	213 pages	1 copy	This text is a manual that details the science, mathematics, and methods of architecture using natural earth materials.

Riding, Alan	Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans	Vintage books division of Random House, New York; 1984.	ISBN: 0-679-72441-9 (pbk)	385 pages	1 copy	This book provides an informative outline of Mexican history, culture, and politics in order to make Mexico more accessible to non-Mexicans.

Rosas, Maria Cristina	Mexico Ante Los Procesos de Regionalizacion Economica en el Mundo	Universidad Nacional Autonoma de Mexico; 1996.	ISBN: 968-36-5696	232 pages	1 copy	This book looks at processes of economic regionalization in the world and how they relate to Mexico.

Rodriguez, Victoria E. and Peter M. Ward.	Political Change in Baja California. Democracy in the Making?	Center for US-Mexican Studies, University of San Diego; 1994.	ISBN: 1-878367-25-0	140 pages	1 copy	This study looks at certain aspects of democratization of Mexico's political system.

Roett, Riordan	Political and Economic Liberalization in Mexico. At a Critical Juncture?	Lynne Rienner Publishers, Boulder; 1993.	ISBN: 1-55587-382-0	183 pages	1 copy	This book looks at the relationship between economic reforms and political processes--development and liberalization--in Mexico. The text includes essays by eight Mexican and U.S. scholars as well as perspectives from the leaders of Mexico's three major political parties.

Ruy Sanchez, Alberto	Mogador	City Lights Books, San Francisco; 1987.	ISBN: 0-87286-271-2	107 pages	1 copy	Mogador, which received the 1987 Villarrutia Prize for Best Mexican Novel, traces the days and nights of Fatma, a young woman seized by desire in an imaginary city of the coast of Morocco. The book contains a vital fusion of Latin American magical realism with the geometric and mystical imagery of Arabic literature, written in a style the author calls "prose of intensities."

Ruy Sanchez, Alberto	Los nombres del aire	Joaquin Morits SA, Col. Roma; 1987	ISBN: 968-27-0231-3	119 pages	1 copy	Los nombres del aire, which received the 1987 Villarrutia Prize for Best Mexican Novel, traces the days and nights of Fatma, a young woman seized by desire in an imaginary city of the coast of Morocco. The book contains a vital fusion of Latin American magical realism with the geometric and mystical imagery of Arabic literature, written in a style the author calls "prose of intensities."

Ruy Sanchez, Alberto	Tristeza de la verdad: Andre Gide regresa de Rusia	Joaquin Mirits SA, Juarrez; 1991	ISBN: 968-27-0512-6	133 pages	1 copy	This novel paints a portrait of an eccentric man in Russia in the years leading up to World War II.

Schettino, Macaario	Para Reconstruir Mexico	Oceano de Mexico, Mexico; 1996.	ISBN: 968-6321-91-8	333 pages	1 copy	This book looks at how to Mexico can rise up out of its past and into a more prosperous, just, and stable future.

Skerry, Peter.	Mexican Americans: the Ambivalent Minority.	The Free Press of Maxwell Macmillan Inc., Toronto; 1993.	ISBN: 0-02-929132-1	463 pages	1 copy	In his book, Peter Skerry critiques the greatly altered political and social landscape created by the impact of Mexican Americans in the United States.

Ugalde, Luis Carlos	The Mexican Congress: Old Player, New Power	Center for Strategic and International Studies, Washington DC; 2000.	ISBN: 0-89206-382-3	203 pages	1 copy	In The Mexican Congress: Old Player, New Power, Luis Carlos Ugalde explores whether the Mexican Congress is institutionally ready for the new era in Mexican politics. Ugalde draws lessons from the past relationship between the legislative and executive branches of government, and provides a strong framework for the future.

Wise, Carol. Ed.	The Post-NAFTA Political Economy: Mexico and the Western Hemisphere	The Pennsylvania State University Press, Pennsylvania; 1998.	ISBN: 0-271-1823-2	382 pages	1 copy	This volume of original essays attempts to understand the fact and fiction behind the debate on NAFTA, by looking closely at the effects that the Agreement has already had on the region. The essays together provide alternative explanations for the anti-NAFTA mood that prevails among important sectors and constituencies within the United States.

Ziccardi, Alicia. Coordinadora	La Tarea de Gobernar: Gobiernos Locales Y Demandas Ciudadanas	Instituto de Investigaciones Sociales UNAM y Miguel Angel Porrua, Mexico; 1995	ISBN: 968-842-545-1	402 pages	1 copy	This book looks at the relations between the local governments of eight Mexican cities and their citizens.

Journals/Institute Publications

Colegio Nacional De Economistas	Mexico: Perspectivas de una Economia Abierta.	Miguel Angel Porrua, Mexico; 1996.	ISBN: 968-842-415-3	449 pages	1 copy	This book portrays Mexico's persistent economic development and structural changes as a model for other developing nations in the region that seek to enter as competitive and productive players in the global market. .

Secretaria de Educacion Publica, Mexico, DF	Mi Libro de historia de Mexico, Educacion primaria	Secretaria de Educacion Publica, Mexico, DF. 1992.	ISBN: 968-29-4280-2;	79 pages	1 copy	This is a fourth grade textbook of Mexican History. The material presented in the book is concise, illustrated, and takes the reader from the traditions of the indigenous peoples of Mexico to present day Mexico.

Secretaria de Educacion Publica, Mexico, DF	Mi Libro de historia de Mexico, Educacion primaria	Secretaria de Educacion Publica, Mexico, DF. 1992.	ISBN: 968-29-4282-9	155 pages	1 copy	This is a sixth grade textbook of Mexican History. The material presented in the book provides detailed information accompanied by illustrations of the historical events of Mexico's history beginning with the arrival of the indigenous peoples.

FEDEPRICAP, Villasuso, Juan Manuel and Marlon Yong Chacon	La Propiedad Intelectual y el Libre Comercio en Centroamerica	FEDEPRICAP, Costa Rica; 1993.	ISBN: 9968-700-07-X	226 pages	1 copy	This text defines the role of intellectual property and the laws and practices surrounding it in Central America, Mexico, and the United States.

Secretaria de Medio Ambiente Recursos Naturales y Pexca	Mexico: La Transicion Hacia El Desarrollo Sustentable.	Secretaria de Medio Ambiente Recursos Naturales y Pexca, 1996.	ISBN: 968-817-342-8	37 pages	1 copy of each language	This text grew out of the Fourth Meeting of United Nations' Sustainable Development Commission. It deals with the effort to spread information about the actions--approaches, commitments, strategies--that society and government have performed in the last year to make possible the transition toward a sustainable development. English/Spanish

Voices of Mexico	Mexican Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: New Era	First Year: 1991-1992. Number 17	ISBN:		1 copy	This collection contains all volumes of the series, Voices of Mexico published in 1992. The series covers a wide array of perspectives on contemporary Mexican issues.

Voices of Mexico	Mexican Perspectives on Contemporary Issues: New Era	Second Year: 1992-1993. Number 21	ISBN:		1 copy	This collection contains all volumes of the series, Voices of Mexico published in 1993. The series cover a wide array of perspectives on contemporary Mexican issues.

IECANA; CCA; C.N.A.	Regional Cooperation on Drinking Water and Waste Water Treatment for Small and Medium-Sized Municipalities in Mexico.	IECANA; CCA; C.N.A., Mexico; 1998.	ISBN: 968-50-3300-5	pages	1 copy of each language	This text presents the information covered at tri-national workshop on Regional Cooperation on Drinking Water and Waste Water treatment for Small and Medium-Sized Municipalities in Mexico. At the workshop, experts from Canada, the United States, and Mexico gave presentations and attended four roundtables that focused on issues and aspects surrounding the management of municipal water management. English/Spanish

Masacchio, Humberto	Milenios de Mexico	Hoja Casa Editorial, Santa Cruz Atoyac; 1999.	Volume I ISBN: 968-6565-35-3; Volume II ISBN: 968-6565-36-1; Volume III ISBN:???; Obra Completa ISBN: 968-6565-34-5	Vol. I 1006 pages Vol. II 2136 pages Vol. III 33359 pages	1 copy of each volume	Milenios de Mexico is an extremely comprehensive three volume encyclopedic series that catalogs every person and place that has played a role in Mexico's history. Beautiful photographs and illustrations compliment the information.