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Beyond the Edge of the Sea

Sailing with Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Vikings, and Other Explorers of the Ancient World

By: Mauricio Obregon,Mauricio Obregón

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Beyond the Edge of the Sea

Sailing with Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Vikings, and Other Explorers of the Ancient World

By: Mauricio Obregon,Mauricio Obregón

The story of Jason and the Argonauts and Homer’s tales of Ulysses are among the greatest ancient epics, but are they merely nautical legends or true stories? Mauricio Obregón has combed through classical texts, focusing on the smallest details, and with his intimate knowledge of historical navigation, brilliantly reenacts the voyages the ancient heroes actually traveled. Using the clues embedded in these epic tales, Obregón deftly argues that many of the legends are not merely fiction, but are, quite possibly, true adventures.

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Modern Library

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067978344X

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9780679783442

Mexico at the World's Fairs

Crafting a Modern Nation

By: Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

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Mexico at the World's Fairs

Crafting a Modern Nation

By: Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair—where its display was the largest and most expensive Mexico has ever mounted—with Mexico's presence after the 1910 Mexican Revolution at fairs in Rio de Janeiro in 1922 and Seville in 1929. Rather than seeing the revolution as a sharp break, Tenorio-Trillo points to important continuities between the pre- and post-revolution periods. He also discusses how, internationally, the character of world's fairs was radically transformed during this time, from the Eiffel Tower prototype, encapsulating a wondrous symbolic universe, to the Disneyland model of commodified entertainment. Drawing on cultural, intellectual, urban, literary, social, and art histories, Tenorio-Trillo's thorough and imaginative study presents a broad cultural history of Mexico from 1880 to 1930, set within the context of the origins of Western nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and modernism. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

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0520378091

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9780520378094

I Speak of the City

Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

By: Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

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I Speak of the City

Mexico City at the Turn of the Twentieth Century

By: Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

In this dazzling multidisciplinary tour of Mexico City, Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo focuses on the period 1880 to 1940, the decisive decades that shaped the city into what it is today. Through a kaleidoscope of expository forms, I Speak of the City connects the realms of literature, architecture, music, popular language, art, and public health to investigate the city in a variety of contexts: as a living history textbook, as an expression of the state, as a modernist capital, as a laboratory, and as language. Tenorio’s formal imagination allows the reader to revel in the free-flowing richness of his narratives, opening startling new vistas onto the urban experience. From art to city planning, from epidemiology to poetry, this book challenges the conventional wisdom about both Mexico City and the turn-of-the-century world to which it belonged. And by engaging directly with the rise of modernism and the cultural experiences of such personalities as Hart Crane, Mina Loy, and Diego Rivera, I Speak of the City will find an enthusiastic audience across the disciplines.

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529

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University of Chicago Press

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0226792730

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9780226792736

Tracing My Roots in Guanajuato, León, and Silao’S Haciendas and Ranchos (1734–1945)

By: Mauricio Javier González

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Tracing My Roots in Guanajuato, León, and Silao’S Haciendas and Ranchos (1734–1945)

By: Mauricio Javier González

Tracing My Roots in Guanajuato, Len, and Silaos Haciendas and Ranchos (17341945) outlines the steps the author took to research his fathers ancestors in the Mexican state of Guanajuato. One step involved him becoming a proficient reader of microfilm to study old church records from the comforts of a history center in McAllen, near his home in Laredo. Another took him to his fathers birthplace for the first time in 1992. The book also presents what the author yielded from his extensive research. At the center are two far-reaching genealogiesone of his grandfather Andrs Gonzlez, another of his grandmother Tomasa Daz. In his journey through their lineages, he met a parade of ancestors who lived their lives during different eras and locations in Guanajuato (mainly El Bajo). On occasion, these forefathers came face to face with historical figures, including Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla.

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Palibrio

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1506518850

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Beyond the Edge of the Sea

Sailing with Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Vikings, and Other Explorers of the Ancient World

By: Mauricio Obregon

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Sailing with Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Vikings, and Other Explorers of the Ancient World

By: Mauricio Obregon

The story of Jason and the Argonauts and Homer's tales of Ulysses' wanderings are among the greatest of the ancient epics, but they are not merely fiction. Following the clues in the classical texts, Mauricio Obregón here maps the likely routes of these adventurers and reveals the remaining traces of the things and places they describe, re-creating the geographical discovery of the ancient world. Obregón takes us with him on his reenactments of the hazardous adventures of Jason, sailing east along the coast of the Black Sea, and of Ulysses, sailing clockwise around the Mediterranean. These voyages map the two major seas of the ancient era and help us understand how the Greeks viewed their world — including the many startling deductions they were able to make about it (such as the circumference of the earth) from what today seems like limited knowledge. Obregón has also traced the voyages depicted in the Norse legends, followed adventurous Muslims on southern journeys, and emulated the Polynesians who managed to traverse the seemingly limitless Pacific. He scrutinizes every detail of sailing in ancient times, such as the mechanics of navigation: The stars, for example, which the mariners took as their guides, were not in the positions that we see them in today, a crucial fact in re-creating past voyages. This wonderful book contains more than forty drawings and photographs, including depictions of the explorers' ships based on the descriptions in the literature that has come down to us, the facts hidden in the fiction, from ancient times.

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0375506810

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9780375506819

The Columbus Papers

The Barcelona Letter of 1493, the Landfall Controversy, and the Indian Guides : a Facsimile Edition of the Unique Copy in the New York Public Library

By: Christopher Columbus,Mauricio Obregón

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The Columbus Papers

The Barcelona Letter of 1493, the Landfall Controversy, and the Indian Guides : a Facsimile Edition of the Unique Copy in the New York Public Library

By: Christopher Columbus,Mauricio Obregón

Describes Columbus's journey and the text of his report

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0025910450

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9780025910454

Beyond the Edge of the Sea

Discovering the Ancient World with the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Muslims, the Vikings, and the Polynesians

By: Mauricio Obregón

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Discovering the Ancient World with the Argonauts, Ulysses, the Muslims, the Vikings, and the Polynesians

By: Mauricio Obregón

Recreates the legendary voyages by ancient mariners and retraces the adventures of Jason and the Argonauts, Ulysses, and Viking explorers, and the spread of the Polynesians throughout the Pacific.

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0679493263

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Mexico at the World's Fairs

Crafting a Modern Nation

By: Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

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Crafting a Modern Nation

By: Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

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0520414802

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9780520414808

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Beyond the Edge of the Sea

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I Speak of the City

I Speak of the City

Tracing My Roots in Guanajuato, León, and Silao’S Haciendas and Ranchos (1734–1945)

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