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Ruiz, Ramon Eduardo was born on September 9, 1921 in La Jolla, California, United States. Son of Ramon and Dolores (Urueta) Ruiz.
( In this searching study of the origins of the Cuban Rev...)
In this searching study of the origins of the Cuban Revolution, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz analyzes the Revolution as the climax of long years of struggle. He demonstrates that the Revolution did not represent a sharp break with the past, but grew out of events and circumstances that had been developing for well over half a century. Professor Ruiz's analysis begins with Cuba's historic relationship with the United States, examining the effect of the sugar industry and U.S. foreign policy on Cuba's economy, social structure, and political development. He shows how the lack of cohesion in Cuban society affected the courses of events, and analyzes the sources of Cuban nationalism and anti-Americanism. Focusing on issues of economic development and social justice in Cuban history, he traces Cuba's revolutionary tradition and leaders, from the struggle for independence from Spain in the 1890's, through the revolution led by José Marti in 1933, up to Fidel Castro. He takes up the question why--and when--Castro turned to Communism, and discusses the ideology of the Revolution in the perspective of the history of socialist ideas in Cuba. By placing the events of 1959 in the context of Cuban history, Cuba: The Making of a Revolution meets the need for an authoritative analysis of the background of the Revolution, and sheds new light on its causes and outcome.
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( The great rebellion ignited by Francisco Madero's call ...)
The great rebellion ignited by Francisco Madero's call to arms in 1910 was a momentous event in the turbulent history of Mexico. It is widely held that the struggle to overthrow the corrupt regime of Porfirio Diaz fundamentally transformed the structure of Mexican society, bringing social justice for downtrodden peasants and workers. Ramón Eduardo Ruíz refutes the traditional view. Drawing on numerous archival sources, he carefully examines the economic consequences of the Diaz regime and traces the growth of widespread social discontent. He describes the backgrounds and professed aims of the Revolution's colorful leaders―Madero, Venustiano Carranza, Pancho Villa, Alvaro Obregón, and Emiliano Zapata―and then sets out to discover what, behind the superficial paper changes and the rhetoric, they actually did. He concludes that the so-called Revolution was led by elements of the dissatisfied middle class whose goals were narrow and bourgeois in character. Despite important paper reforms, many of the old political, economic, and social injustices and inequalities survived.
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( The great rebellion ignited by Francisco Madero's call ...)
The great rebellion ignited by Francisco Madero's call to arms in 1910 was a momentous event in the turbulent history of Mexico. It is widely held that the struggle to overthrow the corrupt regime of Porfirio Diaz fundamentally transformed the structure of Mexican society, bringing social justice for downtrodden peasants and workers. Ramón Eduardo RuÃz refutes the traditional view. Drawing on numerous archival sources, he carefully examines the economic consequences of the Diaz regime and traces the growth of widespread social discontent. He describes the backgrounds and professed aims of the Revolution's colorful leaders—Madero, Venustiano Carranza, Pancho Villa, Alvaro Obregón, and Emiliano Zapata—and then sets out to discover what, behind the superficial paper changes and the rhetoric, they actually did. He concludes that the so-called Revolution was led by elements of the dissatisfied middle class whose goals were narrow and bourgeois in character. Despite important paper reforms, many of the old political, economic, and social injustices and inequalities survived.
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( A narrative study of Mexico's tumultuous origin and dev...)
A narrative study of Mexico's tumultuous origin and development--from its Olmec, Aztec and Mayan heritage to its present-day incarnation as an independent, but struggling, modern country. Winner of a Commonwealth gold medal for Nonfiction and lauded as one of the five best history books of the year by the Los Angeles Times, this epic history of Mexico tells the story of that country's tumultuous origin and development―from its Olmec, Aztec, and Mayan heritage to its present-day incarnation as a dependent, struggling and economically unstable modern country. The history of Mexico, writes Ramón Eduardo Ruiz, one of our most distinguished Mexicanists, is one long tragedy intermittently punctuated by triumph.
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(Beginning with the Olmecs and the Mayas, this survey of t...)
Beginning with the Olmecs and the Mayas, this survey of the history of the Mexican people charts the achievements of those early civilizations. It traces how the religious transformations of the next centuries laid the foundations of modern Mexico and set the stage for revolution and change.
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( The vast stretch of mostly arid lands and deserts that ...)
The vast stretch of mostly arid lands and deserts that makes up the border between Mexico and the United States is not only one of the longest international boundaries in the world, setting apart two entirely different countries for more than two thousand miles, it is the backdrop for a seemingly endless series of major binational news stories. Witness the headline-grabbing attention garnered by NAFTA and the global economy; the assembly plants labeled saviors of the Mexican poor; the accounts applauding the capture of Mexican drug lords; and the columns upon columns devoted to stories about illegal immigration. Nowhere else does a poor, Third World country, like Mexico, share a common border with a wealthy, powerful neighbor del otro lado (on the other side). Here, as one goes, so goes the other.On the Rim of Mexico: Encounters of the Rich and Poor addresses the ties and asymmetries across the Mexico-U.S. border, from Tijuana/San Diego to Matamoros/Brownsville. Based on author Ramón Eduardo Ruiz’s extensive research, travels, remembrances, and first-hand interviews with the people on the Mexican side, the book probes the history, economics, and customs which have shaped this region today. While the author considers many timely issues (the impact of drug trafficking, legal and illegal immigration, assembly plants and the global economy, and the ecological disaster in the making), the book is also an examination of the borderlands themselves: what they are, how they came to be, and salient aspects of life in this region of the world. Moreover, it is an exploration of binational themes. For Mexicans who live and die next door to the almighty Uncle Sam, nearly everything has a binational ringeven personal identity. On the Rim of Mexico is a moving portrait of the people, places, and issues which make-up border life today.
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( Ramon Eduardo Ruiz would be the first to admit that he...)
Ramon Eduardo Ruiz would be the first to admit that he is not your typical Mexican American. But he has always known who he is. Historian, author, and intellectual, Ruiz has established himself through such books as Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People and Cuba: The Making of a Revolution, and in 1998 he was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Clinton. Now he turns his pen on his own life to offer a personal look at what it really means to be American by birth but Mexican by culture. Little has been written by or about persons of Mexican origin who have achieved the academic stature of Ruiz, and his memoir provides insights not found in the more common biographies of labor leaders and civil rights activists. His early life straddled the social worlds of his parent's Mexico and semi-rural America, where his father's success as an entrepreneur and property owner set his family's experiences apart from those of most other Mexican Americans at the time. His parents reinforced in their children an identity as mexicanos, and that connection with his ancestral roots was for Ruiz a lifejacket in the days of acute bigotry in America. In making an early, self-conscious commitment to a life of the mind, Ruiz became aware of his unique nature, and while not immune to prejudice he was able to make a name for himself in several endeavors. As a student, he attended college when few Mexican Americans were given that opportunity, and he was one of the first of his generation to earn a Ph.D. As an Army Air Force officer during World War II, he served as a pilot in the Pacific theatre. And as an intellectual, he navigated the currents of the historical profession and charted new directions in Latin American research through his prolific writing. Ruiz's career teaching took him to Mexico, Massachusetts, Texas, Oregon—often as the lone "Mexican professor," and ultimately back to his native California. While teaching at Smith, he exulted in being "free to interpret Spanish American life and culture to my heart's content," and at the University of California, San Diego, he saw the era of campus racial barrier give way to the birth of affirmative action. While at UCSD, he taught hundreds of Chicanos and trained one of the largest groups of Chicano Ph.D's. Memories of a Hyphenated Man is the story of a unique individual who, while shaped by his upbringing and drawing on deep cultural roots, steadfastly followed his own compass in life. It tells of a singular man who beat the odds as it poignantly addresses the ambiguities associated with race, class, citizenship, and nationality for Mexicans and Mexican Americans.
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This handbook provides an easily navigable source of information about the day-to-day management of patients requiring palliative and hospice care. Succinct, evidence-based, topically focused content is supplemented by extensive tables and algorithms. The table of contents and balance of coverage follows the core curriculum of the American Board of Hospice and Palliative Medicine, thus meeting the educational and clinical information needs of students, residents, fellows, and nurse practitioners. An expert team of clinicians, led by world renowned Eduardo Bruera, address approach to care; psychosocial and spiritual issues; impending death; grief and bereavement; assessment and management of pain; management of non-pain symptoms such as nausea, dyspnea, depression, insomnia, and bleeding; communication and team work; and ethical and legal decision making.
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( Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment ...)
Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment that has shaped the country since the Spanish conquest, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz offers a panoramic interpretation of Mexican history and culture from the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras through the twentieth century. Drawing on economics, psychology, literature, film, and history, he reveals how development processes have fostered glaring inequalities, uncovers the fundamental role of race and class in perpetuating poverty, and sheds new light on the contemporary Mexican reality. Throughout, Ruiz traces a legacy of dependency on outsiders, and considers the weighty role the United States has played, starting with an unjust war that cost Mexico half its territory. Based on Ruiz’s decades of research and travel in Mexico, this penetrating work helps us better understand where the country has come, why it is where it is today, and where it might go in the future.
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Ruiz, Ramon Eduardo was born on September 9, 1921 in La Jolla, California, United States. Son of Ramon and Dolores (Urueta) Ruiz.
Bachelor, San Diego State College, 1947; Master of Arts, Claremont Graduate School, 1948; Doctor of Philosophy, University of California, Berkeley, 1954.
Assistant professor, U. Oregon, Eugene, 1955-1957;
assistant professor, Southern Methodist U., Dallas, 1957-1958;
professor, Smith College, Northampton, Massachusetts, 1958-1969;
professor Lat. American history, University of California at San Diego, 1969-1991;
professor emeritus, since 1991;
department chairman history, University of California at San Diego, 1971-1976;
division humanities, University of California at San Diego, 1972-1974;
member project grant committee, National Endowment for Humanities, 1972-1973, 75-77;
director public programs division, National Endowment for Humanities, 1979-1980. Visiting professor Facultad de Economia, University de Nuevo Leon, Mexico, 1965-1966, College de Sonora, Mexico, summer 1983, Pomona College, 1983-1984, College de Michoacan, Mexico, summer 1986, 87, University Nacional Autonoma de Mexico, fall 1992.
Scholar-in-residence Colegio de la Frontero Norte, Mexico, 1994-1996. MacArthur Foundation nominator, 1981-1982. Member project grant committee Ford Foundation.
( The vast stretch of mostly arid lands and deserts that ...)
( The vast stretch of mostly arid lands and deserts that ...)
( Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment ...)
( A narrative study of Mexico's tumultuous origin and dev...)
( A narrative study of Mexico's tumultuous origin and dev...)
( In this searching study of the origins of the Cuban Rev...)
(This handbook provides an easily navigable source of info...)
( In this searching study of the origins of the Cuban Rev...)
( In this searching study of the origins of the Cuban Rev...)
(Beginning with the Olmecs and the Mayas, this survey of t...)
(Beginning with the Olmecs and the Mayas, this survey of t...)
( The great rebellion ignited by Francisco Madero's call ...)
( The great rebellion ignited by Francisco Madero's call ...)
( The great rebellion ignited by Francisco Madero's call ...)
( The great rebellion ignited by Francisco Madero's call ...)
( Ramon Eduardo Ruiz would be the first to admit that he...)
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Author: Cuba: The Making of A Revolution, 1968 (One of Best History Books, Book World Washington Post 1968), Mexico: The Challenge of Poverty and Illiteracy, 1963, An American in Maximillians's Mexico, 1865-1866, 1959. (with James D. Atwater) Out From Under. Benito Juarez and Mexico's Struggle for Independence, 1969.
(with John Tebbel) South by Southwest: The Mexican-American and His Heritage, 1969, Interpreting Latin American History, 1970, Labor and the Ambivalent Revolutionaries: Mexico, 1911-1923, 1975, The Mexican War: Was it Manifest Destiny?, 1963, The Great Rebellion: Mexico, 1905-1924, 1980 (Hubert C. Herring prize), The People of Sonora and Yanqui Capitalists, 1988, Triumphs and Tragedy: A History of the Mexican People, 1992 (named One of Five Best History Books 1991-1992, Los Angeles Times, Gold Medal award Commonwealth Club San Francisco 1993, History Book Club selection). (with Olivia Teresa Ruiz) Reflexiones Sobre la Identidad de los Pueblos, 1996, On the Rim of Mexico: Encounters of the Rich and Poor, 1998, Memories of a Hyphenated Man, 2003, Mexico: Why a Few are Rich and the People Poor, 2009.
Served to Lieutenant United States Army Air Force, 1943-1946. Member American History Association (Beveridge prize committee 1974-1976), Conference Latin American History, Chicano-Latino Faculty Association University of California (president 1989-1991), Phi Beta Kappa, Sigma Delta Pi.
Married Natalia Marrujo, October 14, 1944. Children— Olivia, Maura.