Mexico: From Montezuma to NAFTA, Chiapas, and BeyondBrassey's, 1996 - 227 páginas In this fascinating thousand-year history of America's controversial and rapidly changing neighbor, a leading expert on Latin America explains how Mexico's present and future flow directly from its past. Going well beyond analyses of recent crises, Mexico is an engrossing introduction to the Indian civilizations, the harsh rule of the Spaniards, social violence and revolution, and the country's mercurial relationship with the United States up to the present. |
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... followed the practice of appointing only Spanish - born - called peninsu- lares or gachupines — to high governmental positions . This practice was partially responsible for preserving the empire's loyalty to the remote Crown in Spain ...
... followed the practice of appointing only Spanish - born - called peninsu- lares or gachupines — to high governmental positions . This practice was partially responsible for preserving the empire's loyalty to the remote Crown in Spain ...
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... followed by a more pro- found and methodical revolutionary movement led by José María More- los , a mestizo parish priest follower of Hidalgo . Morelos possessed those qualities that Hidalgo lacked . Statesmanlike , disciplined , and ...
... followed by a more pro- found and methodical revolutionary movement led by José María More- los , a mestizo parish priest follower of Hidalgo . Morelos possessed those qualities that Hidalgo lacked . Statesmanlike , disciplined , and ...
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... followed . The Reform , as this period was known , lasted several years , cost many lives , produced the Consti- tution of 1857 , and culminated in a bizarre episode - the French inter- vention and the establishment of the Maximilian ...
... followed . The Reform , as this period was known , lasted several years , cost many lives , produced the Consti- tution of 1857 , and culminated in a bizarre episode - the French inter- vention and the establishment of the Maximilian ...
Contenido
Understanding Mexico | 3 |
Mexicos Natural Environment | 8 |
and Native Peoples | 9 |
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administration advocated areas army assassinated Aztec Aztec society became border California capital Cárdenas Carranza caudillos Central century Chiapas Chiapas uprising Church civil colonial conservative constitution corruption Cortés Creoles Crown culture decades defeated democratic developed Díaz Echeverría economic ejidos elections empire encomienda European forces French groups guerrilla Hispanic Huerta immigration important increased independence Indians and mestizos industry influence issue Juárez labor land Latin American leaders leadership Lerdo Ley Lerdo liberal Library of Congress López Portillo Madero major Maximilian Mayan ment Mesoamerica mestizos Mexi Mexican history Mexican revolution Mexican-Americans Mexico City military million NAFTA North numerous Obregón Olmec organized party percent political population Porfirio Díaz president presidential Press Quetzalcoatl rebellion reforms regime region revolutionary rural Salinas Sandinistas Santa Anna sectors social society Southwest Spain Spaniards Spanish Teotihuacán territory Texas throughout tion Toltecs trade U.S. citizens United uprising Veracruz violence Zapatista Zedillo