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Mexico in World History
William H. Beezley
176 pages
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5 maps & 20 halftones
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235x156mm
978-0-19-533790-7
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Paperback
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13 October 2011
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Drawing on materials ranging from archaeological findings to recent studies of migration issues and drug violence, William H. Beezley provides a dramatic narrative of human events as he recounts the story of Mexico in the context of world history. Beginning with the Mayan and Aztec civilizations and their brutal defeat at the hands of the Conquistadors, Beezley highlights the penetrating effect of Spain's three-hundred-year colonial rule, during which Mexico became a multicultural
society marked by Roman Catholicism and the Spanish language. Independence, he shows, was likewise marked by foreign invasions and huge territorial losses, this time at the hands of the United States, who annexed a vast land mass—including the states of Texas, New Mexico, and California—and remained a powerful presence along the border. The 1910 revolution propelled land, educational, and public health reforms, but later governments turned to authoritarian rule, personal profits, and marginalization of rural, indigenous, and poor Mexicans. Throughout this eventful chronicle, Beezley highlights the people and international forces that shaped Mexico's rich and tumultuous history.Readership: Travelers to Mexico,
advanced placement high school students, university students in Mexican, Latin American, and world history courses, popular audience with interest in Mexican history
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William H. Beezley, Professor of History, University of Arizona William H. Beezley is Professor of History at the University of Arizona and co-editor of The Oxford History of Mexico (with Michael Meyers).
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Editors' Preface
Preface
1.: Chapter 1: First Cultures and Indigenous Empires
2.: Chapter 2: Conquest and Colony
3.: Chapter 3: Independence and its Challenges, 1810-1844
4.: Chapter 4: Embattled Mexico, 1844-1876
5.: Chapter 5: Progress for Mexico and Some Mexicans, 1876-1911
6.: Chapter 6: Revolution, 1910-1946
7.: Chapter 7: Revolution for Middling Mexicans and its End, 1938-1982
8.: Chapter 8: Contemporary Mexico
Chronology
Notes
Further Reading
Websites
Index
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