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Mexican history : a primary source reader / edited by Nora E. Jaffary, Edward W. Osowski, Susie S. Porter

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Boulder, CO : Westview Press, [2010]
Copyright Date
©2010
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1 online resource (xxi, 456 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Jaffary, Nora E., 1968-, Osowski, Edward W., and Porter, Susie S., 1965-
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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)., and 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.
Summary
"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"--Provided by publisher.
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9780813391687 (electronic bk.)
0813391687 (electronic bk.)
9780429498978 (e-book ; PDF)
0429498977
9780813343341 (alk. paper)
0813343348 (alk. paper)
9780429989681 (e-book ; PDF) (e-book ; Mobi)
0429989687
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Includes bibliographical references and index.
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