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. |
Dentro del libro
Resultados 1-3 de 56
Página 22
... society . The Aztec leadership realized that , to ensure the viability of the metropolis , they must gain access to ... society was highly stratified . On the top was the emperor . The last emperor , Montezuma II , was a semidivine ...
... society . The Aztec leadership realized that , to ensure the viability of the metropolis , they must gain access to ... society was highly stratified . On the top was the emperor . The last emperor , Montezuma II , was a semidivine ...
Página 23
... society . Members worked a common piece of land and , in times of war , would fight together . Merchants and craftsmen had certain privileges and prestige , but they were legally commoners and were not strictly part of the noble class ...
... society . Members worked a common piece of land and , in times of war , would fight together . Merchants and craftsmen had certain privileges and prestige , but they were legally commoners and were not strictly part of the noble class ...
Página 50
... Society of Jesus ) . The Jesuits were expelled from Spain and all its colonies , and their properties were confiscated in 1767. The reasons for the expulsion are many . First , it was part of a European movement directed at the society ...
... Society of Jesus ) . The Jesuits were expelled from Spain and all its colonies , and their properties were confiscated in 1767. The reasons for the expulsion are many . First , it was part of a European movement directed at the society ...
Contenido
Understanding Mexico | 3 |
Mexicos Natural Environment | 8 |
and Native Peoples | 9 |
Derechos de autor | |
Otras 18 secciones no mostradas
Otras ediciones - Ver todas
Términos y frases comunes
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