Synopses & Reviews
Still the leading survey text on Mexican history from the pre-Columbian period to the present, this thoroughly updated edition of The Course of Mexican History introduces a new co-author, Susan Deeds. This sixth edition offers a fresh understanding of pre-Columbian cultures by addressing trends in the fast-changing field of Mayan studies as well as new interpretations of the Classic and Post-Classic periods. The revised colonial sections incorporate recent scholarship on women and indigenous peoples, highlighting themes of daily life, popular culture, resistance, and contested social relationships among peoples of all ethnicities. An expanded treatment of the Salinas and Zedillo administrations chronicles recent transformations in Mexico's political and economic evolution. Mexico's struggle to democratize is assessed through discussions of violent political infighting within the government party, challenges from new political configurations, and the vicissitudes of the North American Free Trade Agreement. Lavishly illustrated throughout, this authoritative classic is indispensable to students interested in Mexican history, politics, and culture.
Review
"[T]he text used most for introductory survey courses on Mexican history..."--
Latin American Research Review"An excellent text!"--Winston Sarafian, Oxnard College
"The best text treatment of Mexican history currently available!"--G. Micheal Riley, Ohio State University
"Meyer and Sherman have created and most importantly constantly updated an excellent text for a history of Mexico course."--Russell Magnaghi, Northern Michigan University
"An excellent text!"--Gregory Crider, Drake University
"...[I]t goes without saying that this is still the top survey text in its field."--Hubert Miller, University of Texas-Pan American
"...Meyer and Sherman's text is still the best, most comprehensive, reliable, and up-to-date work on Mexican history in the past and present."--Oakah Jones, Purdue University
"An easily read overview of Mexico's history, this book is a favorite of students."--Elaine Lacy, University of North Carolina at Aiken
"I have used the book since its first edition--it just keeps getting better and better."--Donald Castro, California State University at Fullerton
"A great text for a graduate school History course!"--Rahut Gorman, Lewis Clarke State College
Synopsis
Still the leading book on Mexican history from the pre-Columbian periods to the present, this thoroughly updated sixth edition of The Course of Mexican History introduces a new co-author, Susan Deeds, and features a new emphasis on social and cultural history. It offers a new understanding of indigenous cultures, including revised discussions of pre-Columbian central Mexico and the Spanish conquest of Mexico, as well as an examination of new trends in the fast-changing field of Mayan studies.
Using recent scholarship and discoveries, the authors have expanded the sections on the historical background of Spanish conquistadors and the social, religious, and cultural history of Mexico's colonial period, with a particular emphasis on its impact on women and indigenous cultures. New research on the events and social grievances which led up to the independence movement are examined as well.
Table of Contents
1. First Mexicans
2. Mexico's Golden Age
3. Times of Trouble: Post-Classic Mexico
0n 4. The Rise of the Barbarians
5. Aztec Society and Culture
7. The Fall of Tenochititlan
8. The Settlement of New Spain
9. The Imperial System Entrenched
10. The Colonial Economy
11. The Colonial Church
12. Colonial Society: Race and Social Status
13. Culture and Daily Life in New Spain
14. The Bourbons Restructure New Spain
15. Society and Stress in the Late Colonial Period
16. The Wars for Independence
17. The First Mexican Empire
18. The Early Mexican Republic, 1824-33
19. Santa Anna and the Centralized State
20. The Loss of Texas and the War with the United States
21. Society and Culture in the First Half of the Nineteenth Century
22. From Ayutla to the Reform
23. The French Intervention
24. The Restored Republic 1867-76: Nascent Modernization
25. Society and Culture in the Middle of the Nineteenth Century
26. The Making of the Porfiriato
27. The Process of Modernization
28. The Costs of Modernization
29. Society and Culture during the Porfiriato
30. The Liberal Indictment
31. The Overthrow of Diaz
32. Madero and the Failure of Democracy
33. Huerta and the Failure of Dictatorship
34. The Illusory Quest for a Better Way
35. Society and Culture during the Age of Violence
36. Alvaro Obregon Cautiously Implements the Constitution
37. Mexico under Plutarco Calles, 1924-34
38. Cardena Carries the Revolution to the Left
39. Society and Culture from Obregon to Cardenas
40. From Revolution to Evolution, 1940-1946
41. The Institutionalized Revolution, 1946-58
42. Adolfo Lopez Mateos: The Lull Before the Storm, 1958-64
43. Sparks, Fire and Smoldering, 1964-76
44. Mexico Since 1976: The Tensions of Developement and Democratization
45. Society and Culture Since World War II.