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Overview
- 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
This book is the receipient of the 2013 Michael C. Meyer Special Recognition Award from the Rocky Mountain Conference on Latin American Studies.
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9781444340587 |
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Publisher: | Wiley |
Publication date: | 03/16/2011 |
Series: | Wiley Blackwell Companions to World History , #15 |
Sold by: | JOHN WILEY & SONS |
Format: | eBook |
Pages: | 696 |
File size: | 7 MB |
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Table of Contents
List of Figures xiNotes on Contributors xv
Introduction: The Dimensions of the Mexican Experience 1
Part I: The Mexican Experience 11
1. Living the Vida Local: Contours of Everyday Life 13 William E. French
2. On the Street Corner where Stereotypes are Born: Mexico City, 1940–1968 34 Ricardo Pérez Montfort
3. Consumption and Material Culture from Pre-Contact through the Porfiriato 54 Steven B. Bunker and Víctor M. Macías-González
4. Consumption and Material Culture in the Twentieth Century 83 Steven B. Bunker and Víctor M. Macías-González
5. Geographic Regionalism and Natural Diversity 119 Christopher R. Boyer
6. The Cactus Metaphor 131 David Yetman
Part II: The Indigenous World Before the Europeans 143
7. The Gods Depart: Riddles of the Rise, Fall, and Regeneration of Mesoamerica’s Indigenous Societies 145 Susan Kellogg
8. Painting History, Reading Painted Histories: Ethnoliteracy in Prehispanic Oaxaca and Colonial Central Mexico 163 Elizabeth Bakewell and Byron Ellsworth Hamann
Part III: The Silver Heart of the Spanish Empire: Colonial Experiences 193
9. The Gods Return: Conquest and Conquest Society (1502–1610) 195 Matthew Restall and Robert Schwaller
10. The Kingdom of New Spain in the Seventeenth Century 209 Linda A. Curcio-Nagy
11. The Enlightened Colony 230 Susan M. Deeds
Part IV: Two Centuries of Independence: The Republican Century 249
12. Independence and the Generation of the Generals, 1810–1848 251 Christon I. Archer
13. The U.S. Intervention in Mexico, 1846–1848 262 Linda Arnold
14. Republicans and Monarchists, 1848–1867 273 Erika Pani
15. The Civilian and the General, 1867–1911 288 Paul Garner
Special Themes
16. The Penal Code of 1871: From Religious to Civil Control of Everyday Life 302 Kathryn A. Sloan
17. Conquering the Environment and Surviving Natural Disasters 316 James A. Garza
18. Indigenism in General and the Maya in Particular in the Nineteenth Century 328 Terry Rugeley and Michele M. Stephens
19. A Brief History of the Historia moderna de México 339 Servando Ortoll and Pablo Piccato
20. The House at Sadi Carnot 33: Amateur Photography and Domestic Architecture in Porfirian Culture 361 Patricia Massé
21. Disorder and Control: Crime, Justice and Punishment in Porfirian and Revolutionary Society 371 Elisa Speckman Guerra
22. Military and Nation in Mexico, 1821–1916 390 Stephen Neufeld
Part V: Two Centuries of Independence: The Revolutionary Century 405
23. The Sonoran Dynasty and the Reconstruction of the Mexican State 407 Jürgen Buchenau
24. Creating a Revolutionary Culture: Vasconcelos, Indians, Anthropologists, and Calendar Girls 420 William H. Beezley
25. Counter Revolutionary Programs: Social Catholicism and the Cristeros 439 Daniel Newcomer
26. The Apogee of Revolution, 1934–1946 453 Susie Porter
27. The Revolution’s Second Generation: The Miracle, 1946–1982 and Collapse of the PRI, 1982–2000 468 Roderic Ai. Camp
Special Themes
28. Photographing Indian Peoples: Ethnography as Kaleidoscope 480 Deborah Dorotinsky
29. Challenges, Political Opposition, Economic Disaster, Natural Disaster and Democratization, 1968 to 2000 493 Ariel Rodríguez Kuri
30. Fighting Bacteria, the Bible, and the Bottle: Projects to Create New Men, Women, and Children, 1910–1940 505 Gretchen Pierce
31. Environment and Environmentalism 518 Emily Wakild
32. Peculiarities of Mexican Diplomacy 538 Monica Rankin and Dina Berger
33. Science and Public Health in the Century of Revolution 561 Gabriela Soto Laveaga and Claudia Agostoni
34. A Century of Childhood: Growing up in Twentieth-Century Mexico 575 Elena Jackson Albarrán
35. ¡De Pie y en Lucha! Indigenous Mobilizations After 1940 589 María L. Olin Muñoz
36. Mexican Immigration to the United States 604 Timothy J. Henderson
37. Sex, Death and Structuralism: Alternative Views of the Twentieth Century 616 Paul Gillingham
38. For Further Research: Space, Sense, and Sensibility 633 Ageeth Sluis
Index 654
What People are Saying About This
“This book is definitely a valuable contribution to the understanding of Mexican politics during the different eras and it is the first volume to incorporate a discussion of popular music in political analysis.” (Reference Reviews, 2012)
"Summing Up: Recommend. All levels/libraries." (Choice, 1 January 2012)