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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... areas were the mines and the haciendas , in urban areas the obraje , or textile sweatshop , became important . All luxury items , including expensive fabrics , were imported by Spain from European countries and then shipped to the ...
... areas were the mines and the haciendas , in urban areas the obraje , or textile sweatshop , became important . All luxury items , including expensive fabrics , were imported by Spain from European countries and then shipped to the ...
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... areas , conditions were not much better . Many cities remained isolated from the rural areas owing to poor transportation or cut off by rebels and bandits . Few goods and products were moving . With few shipments of raw cotton , the ...
... areas , conditions were not much better . Many cities remained isolated from the rural areas owing to poor transportation or cut off by rebels and bandits . Few goods and products were moving . With few shipments of raw cotton , the ...
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... areas of the country . The heavily Indian and more southern areas of Mexico , however , such as Chiapas and Yucatán , send relatively few immigrants to the United States . According to the U.S. 1990 census , there are an estimated ...
... areas of the country . The heavily Indian and more southern areas of Mexico , however , such as Chiapas and Yucatán , send relatively few immigrants to the United States . According to the U.S. 1990 census , there are an estimated ...
Contenido
Understanding Mexico | 3 |
Mexicos Natural Environment | 8 |
and Native Peoples | 9 |
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administration advocated American 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 issue Juárez labor land Latin America leaders leadership Lerdo Ley Lerdo liberal Library of Congress López Portillo Madero major Maximilian Mayan ment Mesoamerica mestizos Mexi Mexican history Mexican politics Mexican revolution Mexican-Americans Mexico City military million NAFTA North numerous Obregón Olmec organized party percent population Porfirio Díaz president presidential Press Quetzalcoatl rebellion reforms regime region revolutionary 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