A Companion to Mexican History and Culture

by Beezley, William H.

• ISBN13: 9781405190572
• ISBN10: 1405190574
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2011-04-18
• Publisher: Wiley-Blackwell

Summary

A Companion to Mexican History and Culture features 40 essays contributed by international scholars that incorporate ethnic, gender, environmental, and cultural studies to reveal a richer portrait of the Mexican experience, from the earliest peoples to the present. Features the latest scholarship on Mexican history and culture by an array of international scholars Essays are separated into sections on the four major chronological eras Discusses recent historical interpretations with critical historiographical sources, and is enriched by cultural analysis, ethnic and gender studies, and visual evidence The first volume to incorporate a discussion of popular music in political analysis

Author Biography

William H. Beezley is Professor of History at the University of Arizona, co-Director of the Oaxaca Cultural Institute, and Visiting Distinguished Professor at El Colegio de Mexico. He is the author or editor of 20 volumes on Mexico and Latin America, including Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico, second edition (2004), Mexican National Identity: Memory, Insinuation, and Popular Culture (2008), and Mexicans in Revolution, 1910-1946 (2008).

Table of Contents

Introduction: The Dimensions of the Mexican Experience

The Mexican Experience

Living the Vida Local: Contours of Everyday Life

The Street corner where stereotypes are born: Mexico City, 1940- 1968

Consumption and Material Culture from Pre-Contact to the Porfiriato

Consumption and Material Culture in the 20th Century

Geographic Regionalism and Natural Diversity

The Cactus Metaphor

The Indigenous World Before the Europeans

The Gods Depart: Riddles of the Rise, Fall, and Regeneration of Mesoamerica?s Indigenous Societies

Painting History, Reading Painted history: Prehispanic Oaxaca and Colonial Central Mexico

The Silver Heart of the Spanish Empire: Colonial Experiences

The Gods Return: Conquest and Conquest Society

The Kingdom of New Spain (includes demography)

The Enlightened Colony

Two Centuries of Independence: The Republican Century

Independence and the Generation of Generals, 1810-1848

The US Intervention in Mexican, 1846-1848

Republicans and Monarchists, 1848-1867

The Civilian and The General, 1867-1911

The Penal Code of 1871: From religious to civil control of everyday life

Conquering the environment & surviving natural disasters

Indigenism in general and the Maya in particular in the nineteenth-century

A Brief History of the Historia Moderna de Mxico

The House at 33 Sadi Carnot: Amateur Photography and Domestic Architecture in Porfirian Culture

Disorder and control: crime, justice and punishment in Porfirian and Revolutionary Society

The Military and Nation, 1821 to 1916

Two Centuries of Independence: The Revolutionary Century

The Sonoran Dynasty and the Reconstruction of the Mexican State

Creating a Revolutionary Culture: Vasconcelos, Indians, Anthropologists, and Calendar Girls

Counter Revolutionary Programs: Social Catholicism and the Cristeros

The Apogee of Revolution, 1934-1946

The Revolution's Second Generation: The Miracle, 1946-1982 and Collapse of the PRI, 1982-2000

Photographing Indian Peoples: Ethnography as Kaleidoscope

Challenges, Political Opposition, Economic Disaster, Natural Disaster, and Democratization, 1968 to 2000

Fighting Bacteria, the Bible, and the Bottle: Projects to Create New Men, Women, and Children, 1910-1940

Environment and Environmentalism

Peculiarities of Mexican Diplomacy

Science and Public Health in the century of revolution

A Century of Childhood: Growing up in 20th-Century Mexico

De Pie y en Lucha! Indigenous Mobilizations After 1940

Mexican Immigration to the United States

Sex, Death and Structuralism: Alternative Views of the 20th Century

For Further Research: Space, Sense, and Sensibility

Index

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