The History of Mexico

ISBN-13: 9783565080830 / Angielski / Miękka / 184 str.

Auke de Haan

Opis

Mexico's roots burrow deep into misty jungles where Olmecs carved colossal basalt heads, their lips sealed on secrets that predated pyramids, while Mayans etched calendars into stelae that ticked toward doomsdays under vine-choked canopies. Aztecs stacked Tenochtitlan on lake muck, their chinampas floating farms feeding eagle warriors who dragged captives up temple steps for heart-yanking rites that appeased feathered serpents. It was a mosaic of maize kingdoms-Zapotecs terracing Oaxaca hills, Toltecs tooling Tula's atlantes-till European sails sliced the horizon, Cortes bartering beads for betrayal, allying with Tlaxcalans to torch the causeways and bury Moctezuma under his own rubble.Colonial chains clanked next: viceroys squeezing silver from Potosi veins while friars baptized the broken, blending Virgin icons with Aztec skulls in a syncretic stew that simmered resentments. Hidalgo's 1810 cry from Dolores lit the fuse-guerrillas harrying royalists through sierras till Iturbide crowned himself in '21, only for Santa Anna's leg to stump through Texas scraps and French frolics. Maximilian's mustache met a firing squad in '67, Porfirio's posse peddling progress on railroad ties till Madero's manifesto cracked the dam, unleashing Villa's raids and Zapata's land grabs in a decade of dust and dynamite that redrew the map in red.Post-revolution, PRI's grip greased the gears-from Cardenas nationalizing oil to NAFTA's border booms-while Zapatista echoes in Chiapas remind of roots unpulled. Mexico's no straight siesta; it's a piñata burst of pyramids and protests, where ancient codices curl beside cartel clippings. This history's your mescal shot through the mayhem, proving a country's pulse beats strongest in its bruises.

Mexico's roots burrow deep into misty jungles where Olmecs carved colossal basalt heads, their lips sealed on secrets that predated pyramids, while Mayans etched calendars into stelae that ticked...