The Oxford History of Mexico

by Meyer, Michael C.; Beezley, William H.

• ISBN13: 9780195112283
• ISBN10: 0195112288
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2000-09-07
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

Mexico is a country of fascinating contrasts--glorious history and tumultuous politics, extraordinary culture and desperate poverty, ancient traditions and rapid modernization. Yet despite the growing curiosity about Mexico due to increased trade and commerce, mostly resulting from NAFTA, as well as increased tourism and immigration, there is presently no up-to-date, accessible history of Mexico for general readers. The Oxford History of Mexico, edited by Michael Meyer and William Beezley is a comprehensive, lucidly written, and fully current narrative history by twenty of the most esteemed historians of Mexico writing today. Drawing on radical changes in scholarship on Mexico over the past 15 years, The Oxford History of Mexico covers all aspects of the rich history of Mexico from precolonial times to the present. Exploring politics, religion, technology, modernization, ethnicity, colonialism, ecology, the arts, mass media, and popular culture, The Oxford History of Mexico provides a wealth of information for all readers interested in this remarkable country. Fully illustrated, with black-and-white photos throughout and a sixteen page color insert, suggestions for future reading, an index, and a glossary, this is the fullest and most engaging history of Mexico available today.

Author Biography

Michael Meyer is Professor Emeritus of History at the University of Arizona and the author of several books on Mexican history, including (with William Sherman and Susan Deeds) The Course of Mexican History. William Beezley is Professor of History at The University of Arizona and coauthor of El Gran Pueblo. They both live in Tucson.

Table of Contents

Introduction	1	(8)
SECTION I: The Great Encounter	9	(104)
The Spain that Encountered Mexico	11	(36)
Helen Nader
The Mexico that Spain Encountered	47	(32)
Susan Schroeder
The Collision of Two Worlds	79	(34)
Ross Hassig
SECTION II: Crown, Cross, and Lance in New Spain, 1521--1810	113	(162)
An Empire Beyond Compare	115	(36)
Mark A. Burkholder
Faith and Morals in Colonial Mexico	151	(32)
Linda A. Curcio-Nagy
Indian Resistance to Colonialism	183	(30)
Robert W. Patch
Disease, Ecology, and the Environment	213	(32)
Elinor G. K. Melville
Women in Colonial Mexico	245	(30)
Asuncion Lavrin
SECTION III: Collapse, Regeneration, and Challenge, 1810--1910	275	(158)
The Old Colonialism Ends, the New Colonialism Begins	277	(24)
Virginia Guedea
Fashioning a New Nation	301	(38)
Christon I. Archer
War and Peace with the United States	339	(32)
Josefina Zoraida Vazquez
Betterment for Whom? The Reform Period: 1855--1875	371	(26)
Paul Vanderwood
The Culture of Modernity	397	(36)
Robert M. Buffington
William E. French
SECTION IV: The Mexican Revolution, 1910--1940	433	(140)
The Mexican Revolution, 1910--1920	435	(32)
John Mason Hart
Rebuilding the Nation	467	(36)
Thomas Benjamin
Mexico and the Outside World	503	(40)
Friedrich E. Schuler
Festivals of Mexico	542	(1)
Mexican Culture, 1920--1945	543	(30)
Helen Delpar
SECTION V: Mexico in the Post-World War II Era	573	(98)
The Mexican ``Miracle'' and Its Collapse	575	(34)
John W. Sherman
The Time of the Technocrats and Deconstruction of the Revolution	609	(28)
Roderic Ai Camp
Mass Media and Popular Culture in the Postrevolutionary Era	637	(34)
Anne Rubenstein
Glossary	671	(8)
Bibliography	679	(10)
Contributors	689	(2)
Photo Credits	691	(2)
Index	693