Research Catalog

Title

The course of Mexican history / Michael C. Meyer, William L. Sherman.

Author

Meyer, Michael C.

Publication

New York : Oxford University Press, 1995.

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Additional Authors

Sherman, William L.

Description

xii, 723 pages, xxiii : illustrations, maps; 26 cm

Subject

• Mexico > History

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• I. Pre-Columbian Mexico. 1. The First Mexicans. 2. Mexico's Golden Age: The Classic Period. 3. Times of Trouble: Post-Classic Mexico. 4. The Rise of the Barbarians. 5. Aztec Society and Culture -- II. The Spanish Conquerors. 6. The Spanish Invasion. 7. The Fall of Tenochtitlan. 8. The Settlement of New Spain -- III. The Colony of New Spain. 9. The Imperial System Entrenched. 10. The Colonial Economy. 11. The Colonial Church. 12. Colonial Society: Race and Social Status. 13. Culture and Daily Life in New Spain -- IV. Reform and Reaction: The Move to Independence. 14. The Bourbons Restructure New Spain. 15. Society and Stress in the Late Colonial Period. 16. The Wars for Independence. 17. The First Mexican Empire -- V. The Trials of Nationhood, 1824-55. 18. The Early Mexican Republic, 1824-33. 19. Santa Anna and the Centralized State. 20. The Loss of Texas and the War with the United States. 21. Society and Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century.
• VI. Liberals and Conservatives Search for Something Better, 1855-76. 22. From Ayutla to the Reform. 23. The French Intervention. 24. The Restored Republic 1867-76: Nascent Modernization. 25. Society and Culture in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century -- VII. The Modernization of Mexico, 1876-1910. 26. The Making of the Porfiriato. 27. The Process of Modernization. 28. The Costs of Modernization. 29. Society and Culture during the Porfiriato -- VIII. The Revolution: The Military Phase, 1910-20. 30. The Liberal Indictment. 31. The Overthrow of Diaz. 32. Madero and the Failure of Democracy. 33. Huerta and the Failure of Dictatorship. 34. The Illusory Quest for a Better Way. 35. Society and Culture during the Age of Violence -- IX. The Revolution: The Constructive Phase, 1920-40. 36. Alvaro Obregon Cautiously Implements the Constitution. 37. Mexico under Plutarco Calles, 1924-34. 38. Cardenas Carries the Revolution to the Left. 39. Society and Culture from Obregon to Cardenas.
• X. The Revolution Shifts Gears: Mexico Since 1940. 40. From Revolution to Evolution, 1940-46. 41. The Institutionalized Revolution, 1946-58. 42. Adolfo Lopez Mateos: The Lull before the Storm, 1958-64. 43. Sparks, Fire, and Smoldering, 1964-76. 44. Mexico Since 1976: The Tensions of Development and Democratization. 45. Society and Culture Since World War II -- Appendix: Mexican Heads of State.

ISBN

• 0195089790
• 0195089804 (pbk.)

LCCN

94006727

OCLC

• 29909333
• ocm29909333

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries