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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Explorer, film-maker and writer Hugh Thomson has chosen to discuss Evelyn Waugh’s Robbery Under Law: The Mexican Object-Lesson , on FiveBooks (http://five-books.com) as one of the top five on his subject - Mexico, saying that: “… He sees that Mexico’s history is not as simple as ‘noble Indians and brutal Europeans’ and thinks Mexicans should celebrate their post-Columbian inheritance as much as their Aztec history. There is a fair amount of ‘dog eat dog’ in the Mexico Waugh describes – it was a tough place to live and work, and Waugh shows this with no sentimentality and occasional relish..…”. The full interview is available here: http://thebrowser.com/books/interviews/hugh-thomson nessuna recensione | aggiungi una recensione
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This volume is part of the Complete Works of Evelyn Waugh critical edition, which brings together all Waugh's published and previously unpublished writings for the first time with comprehensive introductions and annotation, and a full account of each text's manuscript development and textual variants. The edition's General Editor is Alexander Waugh, Evelyn Waugh's grandson and editor of the twelve-volume Personal Writings sequence.This is the first fully annotated critical edition of Waugh's book on Mexico, Robbery Under Law: The Mexican Object-Lesson (1939), based on three months' research by Waugh in the country in 1938 and rarely included in later reprints of Waugh's travel writings. Waugh insisted in its opening words: 'This is a political book'; it traced the expropriation of British and American oil interests in Mexico by its repressive Marxist government. It described the current political and social inequities suffered by both its Mexican citizens and foreign companies trading there and also provided a powerful account of the history of Catholic persecution in the country. Its narratives offered an implicit but potent warning about the barbarity of totalitarian regimes as war in Western Europe grew increasingly likely. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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Google Books — Sto caricando le informazioni... GeneriSistema Decimale Melvil (DDC)972.0816History and Geography North America Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda Mexico, Central America, West Indies, Bermuda Later history (1867-) 1867-1917Classificazione LCVotoMedia:
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This isn't a book to jump into without having some background about the issues Waugh is discussing, and Graham Green's earlier travelogue The Lawless Roads is arguably more exciting, but if you have an interest in Waugh or in contemporary reactions to the Mexican Civil War, you'll want to get to this one eventually. ( )