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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... institution that combined judicial , advisory , and executive powers . In 1527 , the Crown appointed the first audiencia , which originally was composed of four justices ( oidores ) and a president . The audiencia also exercised the ...
... institution that combined judicial , advisory , and executive powers . In 1527 , the Crown appointed the first audiencia , which originally was composed of four justices ( oidores ) and a president . The audiencia also exercised the ...
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... institution now emerged as the most powerful in the country , and many feared that the rise of militarism would curtail freedom and suppress hard - won rights . Others saw the military as an institution to be used to advance their ...
... institution now emerged as the most powerful in the country , and many feared that the rise of militarism would curtail freedom and suppress hard - won rights . Others saw the military as an institution to be used to advance their ...
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... institutions would be weakened . A unified political party would emerge as the dominant political institution , which would attempt to represent most sectors of society . The revolution that developed was principally experimental ...
... institutions would be weakened . A unified political party would emerge as the dominant political institution , which would attempt to represent most sectors of society . The revolution that developed was principally experimental ...
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