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 36
... initiated the practice of selling offices . Regidores in turn appointed the alcaldes . These changes were accompanied by frequent quarrels between the cabildo members and the teniente de guerra over the distribution of power ...
... initiated the practice of selling offices . Regidores in turn appointed the alcaldes . These changes were accompanied by frequent quarrels between the cabildo members and the teniente de guerra over the distribution of power ...
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... initiated a mild program of reforms . He built new schools , increased the education budget , and broke with the científico tradition . The regime even initiated a modest agrarian reform program , providing free seeds to the Indian ...
... initiated a mild program of reforms . He built new schools , increased the education budget , and broke with the científico tradition . The regime even initiated a modest agrarian reform program , providing free seeds to the Indian ...
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... initiated a period of economic re- form and relative tranquillity . The preceding decade had witnessed the dismantling of the Porfirian dictatorship , the development of a revolu- tionary program embodied in the Constitution of 1917 ...
... initiated a period of economic re- form and relative tranquillity . The preceding decade had witnessed the dismantling of the Porfirian dictatorship , the development of a revolu- tionary program embodied in the Constitution of 1917 ...
Contenido
Understanding Mexico | 3 |
Mexicos Natural Environment | 8 |
and Native Peoples | 9 |
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