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 42
... Spain shaped Spanish economic policy for the next three centuries . Spain believed , as did other European powers , that colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country . The objective of this policy of mercantilism was to ...
... Spain shaped Spanish economic policy for the next three centuries . Spain believed , as did other European powers , that colonies existed for the benefit of the mother country . The objective of this policy of mercantilism was to ...
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... Spain as a major maritime power encouraged the Europeans , particularly the Dutch , English , and French , to ... Spain . Although bothersome to the colonists and costly to Spain , none of these attacks challenged the territorial ...
... Spain as a major maritime power encouraged the Europeans , particularly the Dutch , English , and French , to ... Spain . Although bothersome to the colonists and costly to Spain , none of these attacks challenged the territorial ...
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... Spain's colonial possessions . Northern Mexico had been set- tled primarily by missionaries . During the seventeenth ... Spain was determined to keep them as part of its possessions . After he returned to Spain and was appointed minister ...
... Spain's colonial possessions . Northern Mexico had been set- tled primarily by missionaries . During the seventeenth ... Spain was determined to keep them as part of its possessions . After he returned to Spain and was appointed minister ...
Contenido
Understanding Mexico | 3 |
Mexicos Natural Environment | 8 |
and Native Peoples | 9 |
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Términos y frases comunes
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