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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Página 33
... Crown and the Spanish set- tlers over the control and utilization of the labor as well as between the Crown's stated objective to Christianize the natives and its own economic motivations . It was not that Christianizing and extracting ...
... Crown and the Spanish set- tlers over the control and utilization of the labor as well as between the Crown's stated objective to Christianize the natives and its own economic motivations . It was not that Christianizing and extracting ...
Página 35
... Crown appointed the first audiencia , which originally was composed of four justices ( oidores ) and a president . The audiencia also exercised the right to supervise and investigate the administrative actions of various officials ...
... Crown appointed the first audiencia , which originally was composed of four justices ( oidores ) and a president . The audiencia also exercised the right to supervise and investigate the administrative actions of various officials ...
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... crown . Procuradores from various towns met to discuss their needs and to select a general procurador to present their grievances and requests to the king . Yet , this budding develop- ment of representative government was soon crushed ...
... crown . Procuradores from various towns met to discuss their needs and to select a general procurador to present their grievances and requests to the king . Yet , this budding develop- ment of representative government was soon crushed ...
Contenido
Understanding Mexico | 3 |
Mexicos Natural Environment | 8 |
and Native Peoples | 9 |
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