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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... initiated a mild program of reforms . He built new schools , increased the education budget , and broke with the científico tradition . The regime even initiated a modest agrarian reform program , providing free seeds to the Indian ...
... initiated a mild program of reforms . He built new schools , increased the education budget , and broke with the científico tradition . The regime even initiated a modest agrarian reform program , providing free seeds to the Indian ...
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... initiated by Manuel Ponce , a young pianist who rejected foreign melodies and emphasized the native folk tradi- tion . This was continued by Carlos Chávez , Mexico's most distin- guished musician of the 1930s and 1940s . Basing some of ...
... initiated by Manuel Ponce , a young pianist who rejected foreign melodies and emphasized the native folk tradi- tion . This was continued by Carlos Chávez , Mexico's most distin- guished musician of the 1930s and 1940s . Basing some of ...
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... initiated a series of irrigation projects and extended credit to small farmers and the ejidos . The tempo of land distribution also accelerated . Approximately eight million acres of land were. This engraving of Emiliano Zapata is one of ...
... initiated a series of irrigation projects and extended credit to small farmers and the ejidos . The tempo of land distribution also accelerated . Approximately eight million acres of land were. This engraving of Emiliano Zapata is one of ...
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Understanding Mexico | 3 |
Mexicos Natural Environment | 8 |
and Native Peoples | 9 |
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