Writing Mexican history
By: Eric Van Young
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Published: 2012
Place of publication: Stanford, California
Language: eng
Number of pages: 338
ISBN-13: 9780804768603; 9780804768610
Subjects: Historiography
Description: "This collection brings together a group of important and influential essays on Mexican history and historiography by Eric Van Young, a leading scholar in the field. The essays, several of which appear here in English for the first time, are primarily historiographical; that is, they address the ways in which separate historical literatures have developed over time. They cover a wide range of topics: the historiography of the colonial and nineteenth-century Mexican and Latin American countryside; historical writing in English on the history of colonial Mexico; British, American, and Mexican historical writing on the Mexican Independence movement; the methodology of regional and cultural history; and the relationship of cultural to economic history. Some of the essays have been and will continue to be controversial, while others--for example, those on studies of the Mexican hacienda since 1980, on the theory and method of regional history, and on the "new cultural history" of Mexico--are widely considered classics of the genre." -- Publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Waves and ripples : studies of the Mexican hacienda since 1980; title: Rural Latin America : the colonial period and nineteenth century; title: Two decades of Anglophone writing on colonial Mexico : continuity and change since 1980; title: No human power to impede the impenetrable order of providence : the historiography of Mexican independence; title: Doing regional history : a theoretical discussion and some Mexican cases; title: The Cuautla Lazarus : reading texts on popular collective action; title: The new cultural history comes to old Mexico.