The Oxford history of Mexico
By: edited by Michael C. Meyer and William H. Beezley.
Contributors: Meyer, Michael C.; Beezley, William H.
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2000
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 709
Subjects: Mexico -- History
Description: Profiles the events, institutions, and people which have helped shape the history of Mexico.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 679-687) and index.
Table of contents: title: The great encounter. The Spain that encountered Mexico / Helen Nader; title: The Mexico that Spain encountered / Susan Schroeder; title: The collision of two worlds / Ross Hassig; title: Crown, cross, and lance in New Spain, 1521-1810. An empire beyond compare / Mark A. Burkholder; title: Faith and morals in colonial Mexico / Linda A. Curcio-Nagy; title: Indian resistance to colonialism / Robert W. Patch; title: Disease, ecology, and the environment / Elinor G.K. Melville; title: Women in colonial Mexico / Asunción Lavrin; title: Collapse, regeneration, and challenge, 1810-1910. The old colonialism ends, the new colonialism begins / Virginia Guedea; title: Fashioning a new nation / Christon I. Archer; title: War and peace with the United States / Josefina Zoraida Vázquez; title: Betterment for whom? The reform period : 1855-1875 / Paul Vanderwood; title: The culture of modernity / Robert M. Buffington and William E. French; title: The Mexican revolution, 1910-1940. The Mexican Revolution, 1910-1920 / John Mason Hart; title: Rebuilding the nation / Thomas Benjamin; title: Mexico and the outside world / Friedrich E. Schuler; title: Mexican culture, 1920-1945 / Helen Delpar; title: Mexico in the post-World War II era. The Mexican "miracle" and its collapse / John W. Sherman; title: The time of the technocrats and deconstruction of the revolution / Roderic Ai Camp; title: Mass media and popular culture in the post revolutionary era / Anne Rubenstein.