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 74
... critical factor in determining the U.S. willingness to go to war . In 1845 , President Polk was willing to exchange the amount due for the Mexican recogni- tion of the U.S. border at the Rio Grande and the right of the United States to ...
... critical factor in determining the U.S. willingness to go to war . In 1845 , President Polk was willing to exchange the amount due for the Mexican recogni- tion of the U.S. border at the Rio Grande and the right of the United States to ...
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... critical event in the Chicano movement occurred in 1968 , when high school students walked out of classes , demanding to be instructed in the history and literature of their people . During this period , various radical parties emerged ...
... critical event in the Chicano movement occurred in 1968 , when high school students walked out of classes , demanding to be instructed in the history and literature of their people . During this period , various radical parties emerged ...
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... critical to continue economic development as well as to attract foreign , particularly U.S. , investments . A continu- ing tendency toward violence could frighten away foreign visitors and investors and would weaken the close ...
... critical to continue economic development as well as to attract foreign , particularly U.S. , investments . A continu- ing tendency toward violence could frighten away foreign visitors and investors and would weaken the close ...
Contenido
Understanding Mexico | 3 |
Mexicos Natural Environment and Native Peoples | 9 |
Enter the Spaniards | 26 |
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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