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The course of Mexican history /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Deeds, Susan M. (Author), Meyer, Michael C. (Author), Sherman, William L. (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Oxford University Press, [2018]
Edition:Eleventh edition.
Subjects:
Mexico > History.
Table of Contents:
  • Part I. Pre-Columbian Mexico
  • The first Mexicans
  • Mesoamerica's golden age: the classic period
  • Times of trouble: post-classic Mexico
  • The rise of the Aztecs
  • Aztec society and culture
  • Part II. Colliding worlds
  • The Spanish invasion
  • The settlement of new Spain
  • Part III. Living in the viceroyalty
  • The imperial system entrenched
  • The colonial economy
  • The colonial church
  • Colonial society: race, ethnicity, class, gender, and identity
  • Culture and daily life in New Spain
  • Part IV. Reform and reaction: the move to independence
  • The Bourbons restructure New Spain
  • Society and stress in the late colonial period
  • The wars for independence
  • The first Mexican empire
  • Part V. The trials of nationhood
  • The early Mexican Republic
  • Santa Anna, the centralized state, and the war with the United States
  • Society and culture in the first half of the nineteenth century
  • Part VI. Liberals and conservatives search for something better
  • The reform and the French intervention
  • The restored republic: nascent modernization
  • Society and culture in the middle of the nineteenth century
  • Part VII. The modernization of Mexico
  • The Porfiriato: order and progress
  • The costs of modernization
  • Society and culture during the Porfiriato
  • Part VIII. The Revolution of 1910
  • Madero and the liberal indictment of the Porfiriato
  • Revolts and dictatorship obstruct the democratic overture
  • The illusory quest for a better way
  • Society and culture during the revolutionary years
  • PART ix. The revolutionary aftermath
  • Calles: supreme chief of an institutionalized revolution
  • Cardenas and the essence of the revolution
  • Society and culture in the postrevolutionary period
  • Part X. Development and dissent under a one-party system
  • From revolution to evolution
  • The lull and the storm
  • Failures of development in the one-party state
  • Society and culture: a new internationalism
  • Part XI. Crisis and change in an era of globalization
  • The neoliberal state: a path to democracy?
  • The challenges of democratization
  • Progress and problems
  • Society and culture in an era of crises and global entanglements.