ABSTRACT
Any effort to synthesize the neocolonial history of the Mesoamerican Indians-from independence to the beginning of the modern era-must necessarily be carefully framed and qualified. Although the beginning of this period is clearly marked by political and state-level events that established the region’s independent nations that we recognize today, it could be argued that the end of the period-the radical break symbolized by the emblematic Mexican Revolution (1910-1940)—did not occur in all of the region at the same time or in the same ways or on the same scale.
