Oxford History of Mexico

Name: Oxford History of Mexico
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ISBN: 9780195112283

ISBN-10: 0195112288

ISBN-13: 9780195112283

Edition: 2000

Authors: Michael C. Meyer, William H. Beezley

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Mexico is a country of fascinating contrasts--glorious history and tumultuous politics, extraordinary culture and desperate poverty, ancient traditions and rapid modernization. Yet despite the growing curiosity about Mexico due to increased trade and commerce, as well as increased tourism and immigration, there is presently no up-to-date, accessible history of Mexico for general readers. The Oxford History of Mexico, edited by Michael Meyer and William Beezley, is a comprehensive, lucidly written, and fully current narrative history by twenty of the most esteemed historians of Mexico writing today. Drawing on radical changes in scholarship on Mexico over the past 15 years, The Oxford…

Book details

List price: $60.00
Copyright year: 2000
Publisher: Oxford University Press, Incorporated
Publication date: 9/7/2000
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 736
Size: 10.00" wide x 7.76" long x 1.46" tall
Weight: 3.960
Language: English



Introduction



The Great Encounter



The Spain that Encountered Mexico




The Mexico that Spain Encountered




The Collision of Two Worlds




Crown, Cross, and Lance in New Spain, 1521-1810



An Empire Beyond Compare




Faith and Morals in Colonial Mexico




Indian Resistance to Colonialism




Disease, Ecology, and the Environment




Women in Colonial Mexico




Collapse, Regeneration, and Challenge, 1810-1910



The Old Colonialism Ends, the New Colonialism Begins




Fashioning a New Nation




War and Peace with the United States




Betterment for Whom? The Reform Period: 1855-1875




The Culture of Modernity




The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1940



The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920




Rebuilding the Nation




Mexico and the Outside World




Mexican Culture, 1920-1945




Mexico in the Post-World War II Era



The Mexican "Miracle" and Its Collapse




The Time of the Technocrats and Deconstruction of the Revolution




Mass Media and Popular Culture in the Postrevolutionary Era



Glossary


Bibliography


Contributors


Photo Credits


Index