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1) Gringo viejo
Author
Publisher
Alfaguara
Description
En 1913, el escritor norteamericano Ambrose Bierce se despidió de sus amigos con cartas en las que se declaraba viejo y cansado. Quería morir y escoger cómo. La enfermedad y el accidente le parecían indignas de él. En cambio, ser ajusticiado ante un paredón mexicano... Entró en México en noviembre y no se volvió a saber de él...
Publisher
Distributed by Xenon Pictures, Inc
Pub. Date
2001
Physical Desc
1 DVD (58 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
Revered by generations of Mexicans for his determined fight against the oppressors of Mexico's peasant class. This documentary incorporates both actual footage and reenactments of Zapata's exploits.
Author
Publisher
Miami, FL
Pub. Date
2022.
Physical Desc
459 pages ; 24 cm
Description
Ésta es la historia de un hombre, tres mujeres, una revolución y un tesoro. La revolución fue la de México en tiempos de Emiliano Zapata y Francisco Villa. El tesoro fueron quince mil monedas de oro de a veinte pesos de las denominadas maximilianos, robadas en un banco de Ciudad Juárez el 8 de mayo de 1911. El hombre se llamaba Martín Garret Ortizy era un joven ingeniero de minas español. Todo empezó para él ese mismo día, cuando desde su...
Publisher
VCI Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2023]
Physical Desc
1 DVD (88 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
A simple country girl named Lazara is caught up in the Mexican Revolution when her new husband, Juan, is forced to join the federal army on the eve of their honeymoon. Refusing to be separated from Juan, she chooses to follow him, traveling with the troops. Adoration and money only bring partial contentment for her. Another part of her longs for a life of sanctity and purity that only a life with God can bring.
Publisher
HBO Video
Pub. Date
c2004, c2003
Physical Desc
1 DVD (115 min.) : sd., col. ; 4 3/4 in.
Description
The true story of how Mexican revolutionary Pancho Villa allowed a Hollywood crew to film him in battle, altering the course of film and military history in the process. Early movie giants D.W. Griffith and Harry Aiken send Frank Thayer to Mexico to persuade the cash-strapped, publicity-hungry Villa to let them film his revolution. Stepping into the literal cross fire, Thayer's crew risk their lives in the mingling of fiction and reality. The two...
Author
Publisher
Grijalbo
Pub. Date
2020.
Physical Desc
224 pages cm
Description
"Valentain, at only twelve years old, makes a promise to his mother on her deathbed: to go in search of his father, who, a few years earlier, joined the Villista ranks. The Northern Division passes through the boy's town and the boy, in a burst of courage, approaches the Centaur himself without hesitation. Thus begins a journey of adventure and wisdom, in which Valentain must demonstrate that he has entered, albeit forcedly, into adulthood. Will he...
Author
Publisher
Santillana
Pub. Date
c2009
Physical Desc
180 p. ; 24 cm.
Description
From Madero and Huerta to Felipe Angeles and Rodolfo Fierro, passing through Carranza, Obregón, León Toral and many other historical figures, the stories woven by Ignacio Solares unsettle, dazzle and surprise readers. In his plots, destiny delivers the shots differently from the official versions, events no longer coincide with what is commemorated, and private infernos open their doors to the public, in the event someone would dare to switch them....
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Series
Petra Luna volume 1
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Description
It is 1913, and twelve-year-old Petra Luna's mama has died while the Revolution rages in Mexico. Before her papa is dragged away by soldiers, Petra vows to him that she will care for the family she has left—her abuelita, little sister Amelia, and baby brother Luisito—until they can be reunited. They flee north through the unforgiving desert as their town burns, searching for safe harbor in a world that offers none. Each night when Petra closes...
Author
Publisher
Simon & Schuster
Pub. Date
2021.
Physical Desc
368 pages
Description
"From bestselling author Jeff Guinn, the dramatic story of how U.S.-Mexico border tensions erupted into open warfare in 1916, as a U.S. military expedition crossed the border to try to capture Mexican guerrilla Pancho Villa -- a military incursion whose effects still haunt the border region to this day"--
Author
Publisher
Graywolf Press
Pub. Date
2019.
Physical Desc
294 pages : map ; 21 cm
Description
"Early in the twentieth century, amid the myths of progress and modernity that underpinned Mexico's ruling party, some three hundred Chinese immigrants--close to half of the Cantonese residents of the newly founded city of Torreón--were massacred over the course of three days. It is considered the largest slaughter of Chinese people in the history of the Americas, but more than a century later, the facts continue to be elusive, mistaken, and repressed....
Author
Publisher
W.W. Norton & Company
Pub. Date
[2022]
Physical Desc
viii, 372 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
Description
"Rebel historian" Kelly Lytle Hernández reframes our understanding of U.S. history in this groundbreaking narrative of revolution in the borderlands. Bad Mexicans tells the dramatic story of the magonistas, the migrant rebels who sparked the 1910 Mexican Revolution from the United States. Led by a brilliant but ill-tempered radical named Ricardo Flores Magaon, the magonistas were a motley band of journalists, miners, migrant workers, and more, who...
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