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This dissertation examines the importance of the 1968 Mexico City Olympics. It explores briefly the history of the Olympic movement in Mexico, and the origins of the Mexican bid to host the Olympics. In winning the bid, the Mexican...
Let us try to make each other happy tracks a Creek-Georgia frontier as it emerged in the American Revolution and lasted to the turn of the nineteenth century. There multiple groups of Creeks, Americans, and Europeans grappled with...
Redefining Civilization: Investigating Argentina's Social and Cultural Dichotomy Through Domingo F. Sarmiento's Interpretation of Benjamin Franklin's Principles
Domingo Faustino Sarmiento has forever held the revered position as the Father of Civilization in Argentina's history. Fascinated by Benjamin Franklin's ideas that proclaimed that civilization came from a society of "self-made men, ...
This study focuses on the Iroquois and the traders in New Netherland who perpetuated peaceful diplomatic exchange through the supply of contraband firearms and alcohol. These traders who traveled into the woods replaced the Dutch West...
This thesis introduces the reader to two Maya theater groups who reside and work in the highland town of San Cristóbal de las Casas in the state of Chiapas, Mexico. What follows is an analysis of how indigenous theater, in the context of...
This thesis examines the work of contemporary Mexican artist Carlos Amorales dealing with the theme of lucha libre, professional Mexican wrestling. It assess the critical literature on the subject and offers new avenues of interpretation...
This study will examine artisans and small producers in relation to their struggle against economic liberalism during the nineteenth century and early twentieth century in Guadalajara. The central thesis of this study is that the...
1821 Guadalajara, Mexico exhibited surprising mobility within its population. Using a set of data from the back-to-back censuses of 1821 and 1822, this study argues that mobility affected almost every individual who lived in Guadalajara...
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