The first classroom reader devoted exclusively to nineteeth-century Mexican history, this volume brings together twenty-six essays and primary documents treating Mexico's Age of Caudillos. The readings--many by Mexican politicians, historians, and commentators and available here in English for the first time--are organized into four groups representing major eras in the early national development of Mexico: Independence, the age of Santa Anna, La Reforma and the French Intervention, and the Porfiriato. The selections range from autobiography to political and economic history, from the history...
The first classroom reader devoted exclusively to nineteeth-century Mexican history, this volume brings together twenty-six essays and primary documen...
W. Dirk Raat William H. Beezley William H. Beezley
The Mexican revolution began in 1910 with high hopes and a multitude of spokesmen clamoring for a better life for ordinary Mexicans. This anthology examines how the revolution brought change and often progress. Women, the landless, the poor, the country folk are among those receiving consideration in the twenty-seven readings, which range from political and economic to social and intellectual history. About half of the selections are previously unpublished.
Combining the best new scholarship by modern historians; outstanding work by distinguished Mexicanists of the past; excerpts from...
The Mexican revolution began in 1910 with high hopes and a multitude of spokesmen clamoring for a better life for ordinary Mexicans. This anthology ex...
The Tarahumara, "people of the edge," live on the boundaries of civilization, in the mountains and canyonlands of Mexico's Sierra Tarahumara. There, in southwestern Chihuahua, terrain terminates at the edge of canyons; their mountains border the sky. In these pages, words by W. Dirk Raat and images by George R. Janecek, is testimony to the endurance of the Tarahumara people.
Today, roughly fifty thousand Tarahumaras continue living in ways similar to those of their ancestors, retaining many customs from their pre-Columbian past.
The Tarahumara, "people of the edge," live on the boundaries of civilization, in the mountains and canyonlands of Mexico's Sierra Tarahumara. There...
Ranging from the precontact colonial eras of each country to the present-day administrations of Vincente Fox and George W. Bush, this text focuses on the economic, cultural and politic trends ad events that have shaped the ways that Americans and Mexicans have regarded each other over the centuries.
Ranging from the precontact colonial eras of each country to the present-day administrations of Vincente Fox and George W. Bush, this text focuses on ...
As a study of rebels and authority, of revolution and the suppression of revolution, "Revoltosos" examines the activities of Mexican rebels in the United States between the Immigration Act of 1903--and attempt to exclude "anarchists"--and the end of the Red Scare in the early 1920s. The "revoltosos" were insurgents and political refugees, of the right wing as well as the left, who used the United States as a base for their opposition to the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz and the succeeding governments of Madero, Huerta, and Carranza. As exiles and rebels, the "revolotosos" were the objects...
As a study of rebels and authority, of revolution and the suppression of revolution, "Revoltosos" examines the activities of Mexican rebels in the Uni...
Drug wars, NAFTA, presidential politics, and heightened attention to Mexican immigration are just some of the recent issues that are freshly interpreted in this updated survey of Mexican-U.S. relations.
The fourth edition has been completely revised and offers a lively, engaging, and up-to-date analysis of historical patterns of change and continuity as well as contemporary issues. Ranging from Mexican antiquity and the arrival of the Spanish and British to the present-day administrations of Felipe CalderOn and Barack Obama, historians Dirk Raat and Michael Brescia evaluate the...
Drug wars, NAFTA, presidential politics, and heightened attention to Mexican immigration are just some of the recent issues that are freshly interp...
