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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... exports . The arrería was a tax to pay for the cost of the fleets . Colonists also paid export and import duties on goods shipped to , and brought from , Spain . The Crown also collected tribute from the Indi- ans and sold licenses ...
... exports . The arrería was a tax to pay for the cost of the fleets . Colonists also paid export and import duties on goods shipped to , and brought from , Spain . The Crown also collected tribute from the Indi- ans and sold licenses ...
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... export crops became important for royal income . Essential to the growing textile industry in Europe were good dyes , and New Spain produced one of the finest with a native product , cochineal . Extracted from small insects , this dye ...
... export crops became important for royal income . Essential to the growing textile industry in Europe were good dyes , and New Spain produced one of the finest with a native product , cochineal . Extracted from small insects , this dye ...
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... exports , while diversifying its export base . Mexico was making progress until the crisis of 1994 and 1995 . Since 1988 , the economy has experienced a moderate recovery from the six - year economic crisis that began in 1982. The long ...
... exports , while diversifying its export base . Mexico was making progress until the crisis of 1994 and 1995 . Since 1988 , the economy has experienced a moderate recovery from the six - year economic crisis that began in 1982. The long ...
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Understanding Mexico | 3 |
Mexicos Natural Environment | 8 |
and Native Peoples | 9 |
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