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Subject(s)

• Mexico—History—Sources [Browse]

Editor

• Jaffary, Nora E., 1968- [Browse]
• Osowski, Edward W. [Browse]
• Porter, Susie S., 1965- [Browse]

Summary note

"Mexican History is a comprehensive and innovative primary source reader in Mexican history from the pre-Columbian past to the neoliberal present. Chronologically organized chapters facilitate the book's assimilation into most course syllabi. Its selection of documents thoughtfully conveys enduring themes of Mexican history--land and labor, indigenous people, religion, and state formation--while also incorporating recent advances in scholarly research on the frontier, urban life, popular culture, race and ethnicity, and gender. Student-friendly pedagogical features include contextual introductions to each chapter and each reading, lists of key terms and related sources, and guides to recommended readings and Web-based resources."--Publisher's website.

Bibliographic references

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

• Preface
• Acknowledgments
• Central themes
• Map : the Viceroyalty of New Spain 1786-1821
• Map : states of modern Mexico
• Introduction
• pt. 1. Pre-Columbian Mexico (200-1519 CE)
• 1. Copán and Teotihuacan : shared culture across a great distance (200-900 CE)
• Image : Temple of Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan, detail showing talud-tablero and the rain god
• Image : painted vessel from the Margarita tomb, Copán, in the Teotihuacan style
• 2. The Popol Vuh ("the community book") : the mythic origins of the Quiché Maya (1554-1558)
• 3. Mayan royalty and writing (c. 667 CE)
• Image : Mayan king Hanab-Pakal's sarcophagus lid
• 4. The origin of the Nahuas and the birth of the Fifth Sun (1596)
• 5. A treasury of Mexica power and gender (c. 1541-1542)
• Image : tribute list from Tochtepec
• Image : midwife and newborn babies
• Image : education of children and marriage ceremony
• 6. Markets and temples in the city of Tenochtitlan (1519)
• 7. The Mixtec map of San Pedro Teozacoalco (1580)
• Image : the Mixtec map of San Pedro Teozacoalco
• 8. The urban zoning of Maya social class in the Yucatán (1566)
• 9. The Nomadic Seris of the northern desert (1645).
• pt. 2. The Spanish Conquest and Christian conversion (1519-1610)
• 10. Hernán Cortés and Moteucçoma meet, according to a Spanish conqueror (1568)
• 11. Moteucçoma and Hernán Cortés meet, according to a Nahua Codex (c. 1555)
• 12. The Nahua interpreter Malintzin translates for Cortés and Moteucçoma (1580)
• Image : Malintzin translates for Cortés and Moteucçoma
• 13. Acazitli of Tlalmanalco : Nahua conqueror on the Mesoamerican frontier (1541)
• 14. Poetic attempts to justify the conquest of Acoma, New Mexico (1610)
• 15. The Tlaxcaltecas stage a Christian pageant "like heaven on earth" (1538)
• 16. The spiritual conquest : the trial of Don Carlos Chichimecatecotl of Texcoco (1539)
• 17. The inquisition seizes Don Carlos's estate : the Oztoticpac map (1540)
• Image : the Oztoticpac lands map of 1540
• 18. Father Fernández attempts to convert the Seris of Sonora single-handedly (1679).
• pt. 3. The consolidation of colonial government (1605-1692)
• 19. The silver mining city of Zacatecas (1605)
• 20. Chimalpahin : indigenous chronicler of his time (1611-1613)
• 21. The creation of religious conformity (the early eighteenth century)
• 22. On Chocolate (1648)
• 23. The treatment of African slaves (the seventeenth century)
• 24. The persistence of indigenous idolatry (1656)
• 25. Afro-Mexicans, Mestizos, and Catholicism (1672)
• 26. Sor Juana : nun, poet, and advocate (1690)
• 27. The 1692 Mexico City revolt (1692).
• pt. 4. Late colonial society (1737-1816)
• 28. Indigenous revolt in California (1737)
• 29. Maroon slaves negotiate with the colonial state (1767)
• 30. Mexico's paradoxical enlightenment (1784)
• 31. Casta paintings (1785)
• Image : Francisco Clapera, "De Español, y India nace Mestiza" (from Spaniard and Indian comes Mestiza)
• Image : Francisco Clapera, "De Español, y Negra, Mulato" (from Spaniard and black, Mulato)
• 32. Hidalgo's uprising (1849)
• 33. José María Morelos's national vision (1813)
• 34. A satirical view of colonial society (1816).
• pt. 5. The early republic (1824-1852)
• 35. Address to the new nation (1824)
• 36. Caudillo rule (1874)
• 37. A woman's life on the northern frontier (1877)
• 38. Female education (1842, 1851)
• "The education of women"
• "Advice to young ladies"
• 39. Mexican views of the Mexican-American War (1850)
• 40. The Mayas make their Caste War demands (1850)
• 41. Mexico in postwar social turmoil (1852).
• pt. 6. Liberalism, conservatism, and the Porfiriato (1856-1911)
• 42. The reconfiguration of property rights and the church-state relations (1856)
• 43. The offer of the crown to Maximilian by the Junta of Conservative Notables (1863)
• 44. Porfirio Díaz's political vision (1871)
• 45. A letter to striking workers (1892)
• 46. A positivist interpretation of feminism (1909)
• 47. Precursors to revolution (1904, 1906)
• "Valle Nacional," Regeneración, 1904
• Mexican Liberal Party program
• 48. The Cananea strike : workers' demands (1906)
• 49. Land and society (1909)
• 50. Popular images of Mexican life (the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries)
• Image : José Guadalupe Posada, "grand electric skeleton"
• Image : José Guadalupe Posada, "the American mosquito"
• Image : José Guadalupe Posada, "the mutiny of students" (street newspaper)
• Image : José Guadalupe Posada, "cemetary of ancient epitaphs"
• Image : José Guadalupe Posada, "visit and farewell to Señor de Ixtapalapa who is venerated in said village"
• 51. Corridos from the Porfiriato (the early 1900s)
• "The Corrido of the rural police"
• "The Corrido of the electric trains."
• pt. 7. The Mexican Revolution (1910-1940)
• 52. Francisco Madero's challenge to Porfirio Díaz (1910)
• 53. Revolution in Morelos (1911)
• 54. Land, labor, and the church in the Mexican Constitution (1917)
• Article 27
• Article 123
• Article 130
• 55. Revolutionary Corridos (1917, 1919)
• Fragment of "The Corrido of the Constitutional Congress of Querétaro" (1917)
• "The death of Emiliano Zapata" (1919)
• 56. The Catholic Church hierarchy protests (1917, reprinted 1926)
• 57. Petitioning the president (the 1920s)
• Telegram (1922)
• Telegram (1924)
• Letter (1922)
• Letter (1927)
• 58. Plutarco Elías Calles : the legal challenges of the postrevolutionary state (1928)
• 59. Feminism, suffrage, and revolution (1931)
• 60. Chronicles of Mexico City (1938)
• In defense of what's been used
• The markets
• 61. The responsibility of government and private enterprise to the Mexican people (1937-1938)
• The real purposes of the companies
• Images of oil workers
• Image : drinking fountains
• Image : English colony, Tacoteno, Minititlan, Veracruz
• Image : recreation centers for foreign management
• Image : workers' Camp, Poza Rica, Veracruz
• Image : restrooms, south side
• Cárdenas speaks.
• pt. 8. The institutionalization of the Revolution (1940-1965)
• 62. An assessment of Mexico from the right (1940)
• 63. We the undersigned (1941, 1945)
• Letter (1941)
• Letter (1945)
• 64. Modernization and society (1951)
• 65. Official history (1951)
• Image : "social differences"
• Image : "the conquistador : Hernán Cortés, standing on the bridge of his ship ..."
• Image : "Moctezuma II, Emperor of Mexico"
• Image : "political consequences"
• Image : "ethnic consequences"
• 66. Chicano consciousness (1966)
• 67. Rubén Jaramillo and the struggle for Campesino rights in postrevolutionary Morelos (1967).
• pt. 9. Neoliberalism and its discontents (1968-2006)
• 68. Eyewitness and newspaper accounts of the Tlatelolco Massacre (1968)
• María Alicia Martínez Medrano, nursery-school director
• Gilberto Guevara Niebla of the CNH
• Ángel Martínez Agis, reporter, Excelsior, Thursday, October 3, 1968
• "Bloody Tlatelolco," Excelsior, editorial page, Thursday, October 3, 1968
• "Insidious news from UPI : on this date we cancel the news agency's service," El Sol morning edition, Thursday, October 3, 1968
• José A. Perez Stuart, "Opinion," El Universal, Saturday, October 5, 1968
• Image : "precaution--it's González, the one who lives in Tlatelolco!" (editorial cartoon on Tlatelolco)
• "General Lázaro Cárdenas condemns the agitators : he calls on the sense of responsibilities in defense of national unity," El Heraldo de México, Sunday, October 6, 1968
• 69. Theft and fraud (1970)
• 70. Serial satire : the comic book (1974)
• Image : "how to fill your gut"
• 71. The 1985 earthquake (1985, 1995)
• "Eight hundred factories and sweatshops totally destroyed : the earthquake revealed the exploitation of women textile workers"
• Evangelina Corona interview
• 72. The EZLN views Mexico's past and future (1992)
• 73. Popular responses to Neoliberalism (the late 1990s)
• 74. Jesusa Rodríguez : Iconoclast (1995)
• 75. Maquila workers organize (2006)
• 76. Lies within the truth commission (2006)
• Glossary
• Index.

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ISBN

• 9780813343341 ((alk. paper))
• 0813343348 ((alk. paper))

LCCN

2009014008

OCLC

144217762

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