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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Details

Additional Authors

Sherman, William L.

Description

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

Summary

This text provides a survey of Mexican history from the pre-Columbian period to the present. Covering Mexico's history from a broad range of perspectives - political, economic, social, and cultural - this revised fifth edition brings the story up-to-date with reappraisals based on new information and recent issues such as NAFTA. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

Subject

• 15.85 history of America
• Mexico > History
• Mexico
• 7.310
• Mexico > History

Genre/Form

• History
• History (form)

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Pre-Columbian Mexico. The First Mexicans -- Mexico's Golden Age: The Classic Period -- Times of Trouble: Post-Classic Mexico -- The Rise of the Barbarians -- Aztec Society and Culture -- The Spanish Conquerors. The Spanish Invasion -- The Fall of Tenochtitlan -- The Settlement of New Spain -- The Colony of New Spain. The Imperial System Entrenched -- The Colonial Economy -- The Colonial Church -- Colonial Society: Race and Social Status -- Culture and Daily Life in New Spain -- Reform and Reaction: The Move to Independence -- The Bourbons Restructure New Spain -- Society and Stress in the Late Colonial Period -- The Wars for Independence -- The First Mexican Empire -- The Trials of Nationhood, 1824-55. The Early Mexican Republic, 1824-33 -- Santa Anna and the Centralized State -- The Loss of Texas and the War with the United States -- Society and Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century -- Modernization of Mexico, 1876-1910. Making of the Porfiriato -- Process of Modernization -- Costs of Modernization -- Society and Culture during the Porfiriato -- Revolution: The Military Phase, 1910-20. Liberal Indictment -- Overthrow of Diaz -- Madero and the Failure of Democracy -- Huerta and the Failure of Dictatorship -- Illusory Quest for a Better Way -- Society and Culture during the Age of Violence -- Revolution: The Constructive Phase, 1920-40. Alvaro Obregon Cautiously Implements the Constitution -- Mexico under Plutarco Calles, 1924-34. Cardenas Carries the Revolution to the Left -- Society and Culture from Obregon to Cardenas -- Revolution Shifts Gears: Mexico Since 1940. From Revolution to Evolution, 1940-46 -- Institutionalized Revolution, 1946-58 -- Adolfo Lopez Mateos: The Lull before the Storm, 1958-64 -- Sparks, Fire, and Smoldering, 1964-76 -- Mexico Since 1976: The Tensions of Development and Democratization -- Society and Culture Since World War II -- Appendix: Mexican Heads of State.

ISBN

• 0195089790
• 9780195089790
• 0195089804
• 9780195089806

LCCN

94006727

OCLC

• ocm29909333
• 29909333
• SCSB-2046393

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library