The Course of Mexican History
Autor Susan M. Deeds, Michael C. Meyer, William L. Shermanen Limba Engleză Paperback – 31 oct 2017
offers a completely up-to-date, lively, and engaging survey from the pre-Columbian times to the present.
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Specificații
ISBN-10: 0190659017
Pagini: 672
Dimensiuni: 192 x 233 x 30 mm
Greutate: 1.06 kg
Ediția:00011
Editura: OXFORD UNIV PR
Descriere
Mexico's political, social, and economic landscapes have shifted in very striking ways in recent years and the country now moves cautiously forward, in the twenty-first century. Revised to address these remarkable transformations, The Course of Mexican History, now in its eleventh edition, offers a completely up-to-date, lively, and engaging survey from the pre-Columbian times to the present.
Cuprins
Maps and Charts
New to This Edition
Preface
PART I: PRE-COLUMBIAN MEXICO
1. The First Mexicans
2. Mesoamerica's Golden Age: The Classic Period
3. Times of Trouble: Post-Classic Mexico
4. The Rise of the Aztecs
5. Aztec Society and Culture
PART II: COLLIDING WORLDS
6. The Spanish Invasion
7. The Settlement of New Spain
PART III: LIVING IN THE VICEROYALTY
8. The Imperial System Entrenched
9. The Colonial Economy
10. The Colonial Church
11. Colonial Society: Race, Ethnicity, Class, Gender, and Identity
12. Culture and Daily Life in New Spain
PART IV: REFORM AND REACTION: THE MOVE TO INDEPENDENCE
13. The Bourbons Restructure New Spain
14. Society and Stress in the Late Colonial Period
15. The Wars for Independence
16. The First Mexican Empire
PART V: THE TRIALS OF NATIONHOOD
17. The Early Mexican Republic
18. Santa Anna, the Centralized State, and the War with the United States
19. Society and Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
PART VI: LIBERALS AND CONSERVATIVES SEARCH FOR SOMETHING BETTER
20. The Reform and the French Intervention
21. The Restored Republic: Nascent Modernization
22. Society and Culture in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
PART VII: THE MODERNIZATION OF MEXICO
23. The Porfiriato: Order and Progress?
24. The Costs of Modernization?
25. Society and Culture during the Porfiriato
PART VIII: THE REVOLUTION OF 1910
26. Madero and the Liberal Indictment of the Porfiriato
27. Revolts and Dictatorship Obstruct the Democratic Overture
28. The Illusory Quest for a Better Way
29. Society and Culture during the Revolutionary Years
PART IX: THE REVOLUTIONARY AFTERMATH
30. Calles: Supreme Chief of an Institutionalized Revolution
31. C�rdenas and the Essence of the Revolution
32. Society and Culture in the Postrevolutionary Period
PART X: DEVELOPMENT AND DISSENT UNDER A ONE-PARTY SYSTEM
33. From Revolution to Evolution
34. The Lull and the Storm
35. Failures of Development in the One-Party State
36. Society and Culture: A New Internationalism
PART XI: CRISIS AND CHANGE IN AN ERA OF GLOBALIZATION
37. The Neoliberal State: A Path to Democracy
38. The Challenges of Democratization
39. Progress and Problems
40. Society and Culture in an Era of Crises and Global Entanglements
Appendix: Mexican Heads of State
Sources of Illustrations
Index
Color Palates Follow