Mexico: A History

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University of Oklahoma Press, 1985 - 428 էջ

This book is a skillful synthesis of Mexico's complex and colorful history from pre-Columbian times to the present. Utilizing his many years of research and teaching as well as his personal experience in Mexico, the author incorporates recent archaeological evidence, posits fresh interpretations, and analyzes such current problems as foreign debt, dependency on petroleum exports, and providing education and employment for an expanding population.

Combining political events and social history in a smooth narrative, the book describes events, places, and individuals, the daily life of peasants and urban workers, and touches on cultural topics, including architecture, art, literature, and music. As a special feature, each chapter contains excerpts from contemporary letters, books, decrees, or poems, firsthand accounts that lend historical flavor to the discussion of each era.

Mexico has an exciting history: several Indian civilizations; the Spanish conquest; three colonial centuries, during which there was a blending of Old World and New World cultures; a decade of wars for independence; the struggle of the young republic; wars with the United States and France; confrontation between the Indian president, Juárez, and the Austrian born emperor, Maximilian; a long dictatorship under Diaz; the Great Revolution that destroyed debt peonage, confiscated Church property, and reduced foreign economic power; and the recent drive to modernize through industrialization.

Mexico: A History will be an excellent college-level textbook and good reading for the thousands of Americans who have visited Mexico and those who hope to visit.

From inside the book

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The Aztec Civilization
40
The Spanish Conquest
66
New Spain Established
94
Colonial Institutions and Life
124
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz The Tenth Muse
156
The cathedral of Mexico City
162
Enlightenment and Independence
163
A colonial cavalryman armed with a lance and pistol
171
The Age of Porfirio Díaz
257
Railroad train alongside the Querétaro aqueduct
269
The Great Revolution
283
Madero the apostle Engraving by José
286
Yaqui Indian soldada from Sonora
299
Lázaro Cárdenas the president who nationalized oil
318
The Modern Era
324
Library National University of Mexico
332

Hidalgo initiates the War for Independence Mural by Juan
184
First Empire and Early Republic
195
Lucas Alamán conservative leader and historian
204
Juárez and Maximilian
231
Postage stamp commemorating the 1968 Olympic Games
340
A10 Production of Crude Oil 19011980
374
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Robert Ryal Miller was Professor Emeritus of History at California State University, Hayward. He was the author of Mexico: A History and Juan Alvarado: Governor of California, 1836-1842, also published by the University of Oklahoma Press.

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