Mexico Otherwise Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers

Name: Mexico Otherwise Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers
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ISBN: 9780826323132

ISBN-10: 0826323138

ISBN-13: 9780826323132

Edition: 2005

Authors: Jï¿½rgen Buchenau, Jï¿½rgen Buchenau

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This rich anthology provides a glimpse of modern Mexico through the eyes of foreign observers. Some of these selections are by well-known authors (Alexander von Humboldt, John Reed, B Traven, Evelyn Waugh). Some are unpublished pieces by little-known writers, and six are available here for the first time in English. The writings fall into four periods: the transitions to independence and Mexico's first decades as a sovereign country (1800-1867), the era of Liberal modernisation (1867-1910), the Mexican Revolution (1910-1940), and the post-World War II era. Four major topics show up repeatedly: ethnicity, gender, and race; cultural differences between Mexicans and foreigners; political…

Book details

List price: $29.95
Copyright year: 2005
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Publication date: 7/1/2005
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 304
Size: 6.03" wide x 9.00" long x 0.71" tall
Weight: 0.880




Whither the new nation?



A land of contrasts




A sketch of Mexican society




Life in a convent




With the stars and stripes in Mexico




A view of tropical Veracruz




Defending the French intervention




Life in Maximilian's Mexico city




The modernization of Mexico



Three days of fiesta in Mexico city




Culture shock in northern Mexico




From the Tarascos to Porfirio Diaz




"Military diazpotism" in theory and practice




The barbarous Porfiriato




Revolution and reconstruction



With Zapata in Cuernavaca




Viva Pancho Villa!




Keeping house in revolutionary Mexico city




A revolution for the Indians?




Mexico for the Mexicans




A country without conservatives




Freedom for Mexican women?




The "Mexican miracle" and its collapse



The downside of the miracle




The best of tradition and modernity




Tourism, bullfights, and bullets




Survival in the shantytown




Travels among the Zapatistas in Chiapas




The dead women of Juarez