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Author | : Lynn V. Foster |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 337 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : 0816074054 |
Praise for the previous editions: ..".well researched...concise...interesting..."--American Reference Books Annual
Author | : Alicia Hernández Chávez |
Publisher | : Univ of California Press |
Total Pages | : 413 |
Release | : 2006-01-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0520244915 |
A general text on Mexican history, combining political, economic, and historical information.
Author | : Roberto Cabral del Hoyo |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 138 |
Release | : 1960 |
Genre | : Mexico |
ISBN | : |
Author | : Jürgen Buchenau |
Publisher | : Wiley-Blackwell |
Total Pages | : 212 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Our new brief text highlights Mexico's stunning geographical, ethnic, and social diversity. In the sixteenth century, diseases brought by the Spanish conquerors wiped out almost 90 per cent of the indigenous population. Since then, Mexico - first as a colony of Spain and, after 1821, as an independent nation - has exported thousands of tons of silver, affecting currencies and prices as far away as China and India. In the century following independence, Mexico was invaded six times by three different European nations (Britain, France, and Spain) as well as the United States, the latter conflict resulting in the loss of half of Mexico's territory. More recently, Mexico has played an ever more important part in the world economy. Focused primarily on the period since independence in 1821, this brief text effectively summarizes Mexico's rich history, delineating some of the major processes at the national level and hinting at regional and local counter-currents.
Author | : William Beezley |
Publisher | : Oxford University Press |
Total Pages | : 688 |
Release | : 2010-08-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0199731985 |
The tenth anniversary edition of The Oxford History of Mexico tells the fascinating story of Mexico as it has evolved from the reign of the Aztecs through the twenty-first century. Available for the first time in paperback, this magnificent volume covers the nation's history in a series of essays written by an international team of scholars. Essays have been revised to reflect events of the past decade, recent discoveries, and the newest advances in scholarship, while a new introduction discusses such issues as immigration from Mexico to the United States and the democratization implied by the defeat of the official party in the 2000 and 2006 presidential elections. Newly released to commemorate the bicentennial of the Mexican War of Independence and the centennial of the Mexican Revolution, this updated and redesigned volume offers an affordable, accessible, and compelling account of Mexico through the ages.
Author | : Arnoldo De León |
Publisher | : |
Total Pages | : 228 |
Release | : 1999 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : |
Like its ground-breaking predecessor, the first general survey of Tejanos, this completely up-to-date revision is a concise political, cultural, and social history of Mexican Americans in Texas from the Spanish colonial era to the present. Professor De Len is careful to portray Tejanos as active subjects, not merely objects in the ongoing Texas story. Complemented by a stunning photographic essay, a helpful glossary, and meticulously annotated, this work continues to be ideal reading for anyone wanting to learn about the most influential ethnic group in Texas.
Author | : Ernesto Chavez |
Publisher | : Macmillan Higher Education |
Total Pages | : 273 |
Release | : 2018-12-05 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1319242790 |
The U.S. war with Mexico was a pivotal event in American history, it set crucial wartime precedents and served as a precursor for the impending Civil War. With a powerful introduction and rich collection of documents, Ernesto Ch‡vez makes a convincing case that as an expansionist war, the U.S.-Mexico conflict set a new standard for the acquisition of foreign territory through war. Equally important, the war racialized the enemy, and in so doing accentuated the nature of whiteness and white male citizenship in the U.S., especially as it related to conquered Mexicans, Indians, slaves, and even women. The war, along with ongoing westward expansion, heightened public debates in the North and South about slavery and its place in newly-acquired territories. In addition, Ch‡vez shows how the political, economic and social development of each nation played a critical role in the path to war and its ultimate outcome. Both official and popular documents offer the events leading up to the war, the politics surrounding it, popular sentiment in both countries about it, and the war’s long-term impact on the future development and direction of these two nations. Headnotes, a chronology, maps and a selected bibliography enrich student understanding of this important historical moment.
Author | : Lynn V. Foster |
Publisher | : Infobase Publishing |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2007 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1438108273 |
Presents a history of Mexico, from pre-Columbian times through the early 2000s.
Author | : Jo Tuckman |
Publisher | : Yale University Press |
Total Pages | : 390 |
Release | : 2012-07-03 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0300160321 |
In 2000, Mexico's long invincible Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI) lost the presidential election to Vicente Fox of the National Action Party (PAN). The ensuing changeover--after 71 years of PRI dominance--was hailed as the beginning of a new era of hope for Mexico. Yet the promises of the PAN victory were not consolidated. In this vivid account of Mexico's recent history, a journalist with extensive reporting experience investigates the nation's young democracy, its shortcomings and achievements, and why the PRI is favored to retake the presidency in 2012.Jo Tuckman reports on the murky, terrifying world of Mexico's drug wars, the counterproductive government strategy, and the impact of U.S. policies. She describes the reluctance and inability of politicians to seriously tackle rampant corruption, environmental degradation, pervasive poverty, and acute inequality. To make matters worse, the influence of non-elected interest groups has grown and public trust in almost all institutions--including the Catholic church--is fading. The pressure valve once presented by emigration is also closing. Even so, there are positive signs: the critical media cannot be easily controlled, and small but determined citizen groups notch up significant, if partial, victories for accountability. While Mexico faces complex challenges that can often seem insurmountable, Tuckman concludes, the unflagging vitality and imagination of many in Mexico inspire hope for a better future.
Author | : David J. Weber |
Publisher | : UNM Press |
Total Pages | : 452 |
Release | : 1982 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780826306036 |
Reinterprets borderlands history from the Mexican perspective.