ABSTRACT
Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico includes approximately 250 articles on the people and topics most relevant to students seeking information about Mexico. Although the Concise version is a unique single-volume source of information on the entire sweep of Mexican history-pre-colonial, colonial, and moderns-it will emphasize events that affecting Mexico today, event students most need to understand.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
letter A|49 pages
A
entry |5 pages
African Mexicans
entry |1 pages
Agustín I (Emperor of Mexico)
entry |3 pages
Alamán, Lucas 1792–1853
entry |1 pages
Architecture
entry |13 pages
Architecture: Colonial
entry |13 pages
Architecture: Nineteenth Century
entry |15 pages
Architecture: Twentieth Century
entry |3 pages
Ayutla, Revolution of
entry |1 pages
Aztecs
entry |3 pages
Azuela, Mariano 1873–1952
letter B|5 pages
B
entry |1 pages
Borders
entry |5 pages
Bullfighting
letter C|102 pages
C
entry |2 pages
Calderón de la Barca, Fanny 1804–82
entry |3 pages
Calles, Plutarco Elías 1877–1945
entry |2 pages
Campobello, Nellie 1900–
entry |1 pages
Cantinflas
entry |4 pages
Cárdenas, Cuauhtémoc 1934–
entry |5 pages
Cárdenas, Lázaro 1895–1970
entry |5 pages
Carranza, Venustiano 1859–1920
entry |2 pages
Castellanos, Rosario 1925–1974
entry |5 pages
Caste War of Yucatán
entry |1 pages
Catholic Church
entry |4 pages
Catholic Church: Colonial Structure, Divisions, and Hierarchy
entry |3 pages
Catholic Church: Hapsburg New Spain
entry |4 pages
Catholic Church: Bourbon New Spain
entry |6 pages
Catholic Church: 1821–1910
entry |4 pages
Catholic Church: 1910–96
entry |4 pages
Cedillo, Saturnino 1890–1939
entry |1 pages
Chiapas Zapatista Rebellion
entry |1 pages
Conquest
entry |4 pages
Conquest: Spanish Background
entry |7 pages
Conquest: Central Mexico
entry |4 pages
Conquest: Yucatán
entry |4 pages
Conquest: Northern Mexico
entry |11 pages
Conquest: Demographic Impact
entry |5 pages
Conquest: Ecological Impact
entry |6 pages
Conquistadors
entry |5 pages
Conservatism
entry |4 pages
Constitution of 1917
entry |5 pages
Corridos
entry |5 pages
Cortés, Fernando (Hernán) 1484 or 1485–1547
entry |5 pages
Cristero Rebellion
entry |4 pages
Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la 1651–95
entry |6 pages
Cuisine
letter D|19 pages
D
entry |5 pages
Day of the Dead
entry |3 pages
De la Huerta, Adolfo 1881–1955
entry |1 pages
De Las Casas, Bartolomé
entry |1 pages
Díaz, Porfirio 1830–1915
entry |3 pages
Díaz, Porfirio: Biography
entry |5 pages
Díaz, Porfirio: Interpretive Discussion
entry |2 pages
Díaz del Castillo, Bernal c.1495–1584
entry |1 pages
Doña Marina
entry |6 pages
Drug Trade
letter E|12 pages
E
entry |6 pages
Earthquake of 1985
entry |7 pages
Ecology
entry |1 pages
Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional
entry |1 pages
Elías Calles, Plutarco
entry |1 pages
Ezln
letter F|45 pages
F
entry |1 pages
Family and Kinship
entry |5 pages
Family and Kinship: Hapsburg Colonial Period
entry |7 pages
Family and Kinship: Bourbon Colonial Period and Nineteenth Century
entry |4 pages
Family and Kinship: Twentieth Century
entry |1 pages
Fernández, Manuel Félix
entry |1 pages
Foreign Policy
entry |7 pages
Foreign Policy: 1821–76
entry |6 pages
Foreign Policy: 1876–1910
entry |5 pages
Foreign Policy: 1910–46
entry |9 pages
Foreign Policy: 1946–96
entry |5 pages
French Intervention
entry |3 pages
Fuentes, Carlos 1928–
letter G|23 pages
G
entry |2 pages
Gálvez, José de 1720–87
entry |1 pages
Gatt
entry |1 pages
Gender
entry |6 pages
Gender: Overview
entry |5 pages
Gender: Gender and Mexican Spanish
entry |7 pages
General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT)
entry |2 pages
Great Depression
entry |1 pages
Guadalupanismo
entry |2 pages
Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of
entry |4 pages
Guerrero, Vicente 1782–1831
letter H|17 pages
H
entry |1 pages
Hapsburg, Ferdinand Maximilian von
entry |4 pages
Hidalgo Revolt
entry |5 pages
Hidalgo y Costilla, Miguel 1753–1811
entry |4 pages
Huerta, Victoriano 1854–1916
entry |7 pages
Human Rights
letter I|32 pages
I
entry |1 pages
Independence Wars
entry |1 pages
Industrial Labor
entry |8 pages
Industrial Labor: 1876–1910
entry |6 pages
Industrial Labor: 1910–40
entry |8 pages
Industrial Labor: 1940–96
entry |6 pages
Industry and Industrialization
entry |5 pages
Inquisition
entry |4 pages
Iturbide, Agustín de 1783–1824
letter J|4 pages
J
entry |4 pages
Juárez, Benito 1806–72
letter K|4 pages
K
entry |4 pages
Kahlo, Frida 1907–54
entry |1 pages
Kinship
letter L|23 pages
L
entry |4 pages
Las Casas, Bartolomé de 1484–1566
entry |4 pages
Lerdo de Tejada, Sebastián 1827–89
entry |6 pages
Liberalism
entry |4 pages
Limantour, José Yves 1854–1935
entry |6 pages
Literature and National Identity, 1910–96
entry |4 pages
Lombardo Toledano, Vicente 1894–1968
entry |1 pages
López de Santa Anna, Antonio
letter M|194 pages
M
entry |3 pages
Madero, Francisco I. 1873–1913
entry |7 pages
Maize
entry |4 pages
La Malinche and Malinchismo
entry |4 pages
Maquiladoras
entry |1 pages
Marina, Doña
entry |4 pages
Massacre of Tlatelolco
entry |3 pages
Maximilian (Ferdinand Maximilian von Hapsburg) 1832–67
entry |1 pages
Mesoamerica
entry |2 pages
Mesoamerica: Introduction
entry |5 pages
Mesoamerica: Maya
entry |5 pages
Mesoamerica: Mexica
entry |3 pages
Mesoamerica: Monte Albán
entry |3 pages
Mesoamerica: Olmec
entry |3 pages
Mesoamerica: Teotihuacan
entry |3 pages
Mesoamerica: Toltec
entry |3 pages
Mesoamerica: Veracruz, Classic and Postclassic
entry |11 pages
Mesoamerica: Agriculture and Ecology
entry |5 pages
Mesoamerica: Calendrics
entry |5 pages
Mesoamerica: Population
entry |6 pages
Mesoamerica: Religion
entry |3 pages
Mesoamerica: Warfare
entry |5 pages
Mesoamerica: Writing
entry |6 pages
Mestizaje
entry |1 pages
Mexica
entry |6 pages
Mexican American Communities
entry |1 pages
Mexican-American War
entry |1 pages
Mexican Revolution
entry |5 pages
Mexican Revolution: Causes
entry |6 pages
Mexican Revolution: October 1910–February 1913
entry |6 pages
Mexican Revolution: February 1913–October 1915
entry |4 pages
Mexican Revolution: October 1915–May 1917
entry |4 pages
Mexican Revolution: May 1917–December 1920
entry |5 pages
Mexican Spanish
entry |1 pages
Migration to the United States
entry |4 pages
Migration to the United States: 1876–1940
entry |7 pages
Migration to the United States: 1940–96
entry |1 pages
Military
entry |8 pages
Military: Bourbon New Spain
entry |8 pages
Military: 1821–1914
entry |5 pages
Military: 1914–96
entry |4 pages
Mining: Colonial
entry |5 pages
Missions
entry |4 pages
Modernism
entry |3 pages
Mora, José María Luís 1794–1850
entry |4 pages
Morelos, José María 1765–1815
entry |4 pages
Moreno Reyes, Mario (Cantinflas) 1913–93
entry |4 pages
Morones, Luis Napoleón 1890–1964
entry |1 pages
Motion Pictures
entry |9 pages
Motion Pictures: 1896–1930
entry |8 pages
Motion Pictures: 1930–60
entry |4 pages
Motion Pictures: 1960–96
entry |1 pages
Music
entry |5 pages
Music: Mesoamerica through Seventeenth Century
entry |6 pages
Music: Eighteenth Century
entry |16 pages
Music: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries
letter N|17 pages
N
entry |1 pages
Nafta
entry |5 pages
Nahua Rulers, Pre-Hispanic
entry |6 pages
Nationalism
entry |8 pages
North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA)
letter O|7 pages
O
entry |4 pages
Obregón, Álvaro 1880–1928
entry |1 pages
Orozco, José Clemente 1883–1949
entry |3 pages
Orozco Vázquez, Pascual, Jr. 1882–1915
letter P|96 pages
P
entry |6 pages
Partido de Acción Nacional (PAN)
entry |4 pages
Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD)
entry |6 pages
Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI)
entry |3 pages
Paz, Octavio 1914–
entry |6 pages
Peso Crisis of 1994
entry |1 pages
Petroleum
entry |8 pages
Petroleum: Pre-1938
entry |5 pages
Petroleum: 1938–96
entry |6 pages
Photography
entry |2 pages
Politics and Government
entry |7 pages
Politics and Government: Hapsburg New Spain
entry |5 pages
Politics and Government: Bourbon New Spain
entry |8 pages
Politics and Government: 1821–76
entry |8 pages
Politics and Government: 1876–1910
entry |5 pages
Politics and Government: 1910–46
entry |8 pages
Politics and Government: 1946–96
entry |2 pages
Poniatowska, Elena 1933–
entry |6 pages
Popular Catholicism
entry |4 pages
Popular Liberalism
entry |1 pages
Prd
entry |1 pages
Pri
entry |8 pages
Prints
entry |7 pages
Protestantism
letter Q|4 pages
Q
entry |4 pages
Quetzalcoatl
letter R|59 pages
R
entry |10 pages
Radio
entry |6 pages
Railroads
entry |4 pages
Reform Laws
entry |1 pages
Reform Wars
entry |1 pages
Revolution, Mexican
entry |1 pages
Revolution of Ayutla
entry |3 pages
Reyes, Bernardo 1850–1913
entry |3 pages
Rivera, Diego 1886–1957
entry |2 pages
Ruiz García, Samuel 1924–
entry |3 pages
Rulfo, Juan 1918–86
entry |1 pages
Rural Economy and Society
entry |11 pages
Rural Economy and Society: Colonial
entry |5 pages
Rural Economy and Society: 1821–1910
entry |5 pages
Resistance and Rebellion
entry |6 pages
Rural Economy and Society: 1910–40
entry |7 pages
Rural Economy and Society: 1940–96, Land-Labor Regimes
entry |6 pages
Rural Economy and Society: 1940–96, Resistance and Rebellion
letter S|20 pages
S
entry |2 pages
Sahagún, Bernardino de c. 1499–1590
entry |5 pages
Salinas de Gortari, Carlos 1948–
entry |2 pages
Santa Anna, Antonio López de 1794–1876
entry |5 pages
Science
entry |1 pages
Sexuality
entry |2 pages
Siqueiros, David Alfaro 1896–1974
entry |1 pages
Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz
entry |1 pages
Spanish Language in Mexico
entry |3 pages
Sports
entry |6 pages
Student Movement of 1968
letter T|19 pages
T
entry |3 pages
Telenovelas
entry |5 pages
Television
entry |1 pages
Teotihuacan
entry |4 pages
Terrazas Fuentes, Luis 1829–1923
entry |4 pages
Texan Secession
entry |1 pages
Three Years War
entry |1 pages
Tlatelolco, Massacre of
entry |1 pages
Toltec
entry |4 pages
Tourism
entry |1 pages
Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo
entry |3 pages
Triple Alliance
letter U|26 pages
U
entry |5 pages
Urbanism and Urbanization
entry |1 pages
U.S.-Mexican Border
entry |6 pages
U.S.-Mexican Border: 1821–1910
entry |6 pages
U.S.-Mexican Border: 1910–96
entry |8 pages
U.S.-Mexican Border: Border Urbanism
entry |5 pages
U.S.-Mexican War
letter V|74 pages
V
entry |3 pages
Vasconcelos, José 1882–1959
entry |3 pages
Velázquez Sánchez, Fidel 1900–97
entry |1 pages
Veracruz, Classic and Postclassic Mesoamerican
entry |2 pages
Victoria, Guadalupe 1785–1843
entry |4 pages
Villa, Francisco (Pancho) 1878–1923
entry |3 pages
Virgin of Guadalupe and Guadalupanismo
entry |1 pages
Visual Arts
entry |16 pages
Visual Arts: Mesoamerica
entry |7 pages
Visual Arts: Sixteenth Century
entry |12 pages
Visual Arts: Seventeenth Century
entry |9 pages
Visual Arts: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Academic Art
entry |10 pages
Visual Arts: 1910–37, The Revolutionary Tradition
entry |8 pages
Visual Arts: 1920–45, Art outside the Revolutionary Tradition
entry |6 pages
Visual Arts: 1945–96
letter W|36 pages
W
entry |8 pages
Wars of Independence
entry |5 pages
Wars of Reform (Three Years War)
entry |1 pages
Women's Status and Occupation
entry |8 pages
Women's Status and Occupation: Mesoamerica
entry |5 pages
Women's Status and Occupation: Indian Women in New Spain
entry |4 pages
Women's Status and Occupation: Spanish Women in New Spain
entry |6 pages
Women's Status and Occupation: 1821–1910
entry |5 pages
Women's Status and Occupation: 1910–96
entry |1 pages
World Trade Organization
letter Z|10 pages
Z
entry |3 pages
Zapata, Emiliano 1879–1919
entry |5 pages
Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas
entry |1 pages
Zapotecs, Mesoamerican
entry |4 pages
Zedillo Ponce de León, Ernesto 1951–
