ABSTRACT

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.

chapter |8 pages

Introduction

part 1|4 pages

Pre-Columbian Mexico (200–1519 ce)

part 2|4 pages

The Spanish Conquest and Christian Conversion (1519–1610)

part 3|4 pages

The Consolidation of Colonial Government (1605–1692)

part 4|2 pages

Late Colonial Society (1737–1816)

chapter 28|6 pages

Indigenous Revolt in California (1737) *

chapter 31|4 pages

Casta Paintings (1785)

chapter 32|8 pages

Hidalgo’s Uprising (1849) *

part 5|2 pages

The Early Republic (1824–1852)

chapter 35|6 pages

Address to the New Nation (1824) *

chapter 36|6 pages

Caudillo Rule (1874) *

chapter 38|5 pages

Female Education (1842, 1851) *

chapter 41|8 pages

Mexico in Postwar Social Turmoil (1852) *

part 6|4 pages

Liberalism, Conservatism, and the Porfiriato (1856–1911)

chapter 45|4 pages

A Letter to Striking Workers (1892) *

chapter 47|6 pages

Precursors to Revolution (1904, 1906) *

chapter 49|8 pages

Land and Society (1909) *

part 7|2 pages

The Mexican Revolution (1910–1940)

chapter 53|5 pages

Revolution in Morelos (1911) *

chapter 55|6 pages

Revolutionary Corridos (1917, 1919) *

chapter 57|4 pages

Petitioning the President (the 1920s) *

chapter 60|7 pages

Chronicles of Mexico City (1938) *

part 8|2 pages

The Institutionalization of the Revolution (1940–1965)

part 9|4 pages

Neoliberalism and Its Discontents (1968–2006)