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Informationen zum Autor William H. Beezley is Professor of History at the University of Arizona, co-Director of the Oaxaca Cultural Institute, and Visiting Distinguished Professor at El Colegio de Mexico. He is the author or editor of 20 volumes on Mexico and Latin America, including Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico, second edition (2004), Mexican National Identity: Memory, Insinuation, and Popular Culture (2008), and Mexicans in Revolution, 1910-1946 (2008). Klappentext A Companion to Mexican History and Culture features 40 essays contributed by international scholars that incorporate ethnic, gender, environmental, and cultural studies to reveal a richer portrait of the Mexican experience, from the earliest peoples to the present.* Features the latest scholarship on Mexican history and culture by an array of international scholars* Essays are separated into sections on the four major chronological eras* Discusses recent historical interpretations with critical historiographical sources, and is enriched by cultural analysis, ethnic and gender studies, and visual evidence* The first volume to incorporate a discussion of popular music in political analysis Zusammenfassung A Companion to Mexican History and Culture features 40 carefully chosen essays that focus on new approaches to Mexican history. Essays by a variety of international scholars serve to broaden accounts of the Mexican experience through the incorporation of ethnic, gender, environmental, and cultural studies. Inhaltsverzeichnis List of Figures xi Notes on Contributors xv Introduction: The Dimensions of the Mexican Experience 1 Part I: The Mexican Experience 11 1. Living the Vida Local: Contours of Everyday Life 13 William E. French 2. On the Street Corner where Stereotypes are Born: Mexico City, 1940-1968 34 Ricardo Pérez Montfort 3. Consumption and Material Culture from Pre-Contact through the Porfiriato 54 Steven B. Bunker and Víctor M. Macías-González 4. Consumption and Material Culture in the Twentieth Century 83 Steven B. Bunker and Víctor M. Macías-González 5. Geographic Regionalism and Natural Diversity 119 Christopher R. Boyer 6. The Cactus Metaphor 131 David Yetman Part II: The Indigenous World Before the Europeans 143 7. The Gods Depart: Riddles of the Rise, Fall, and Regeneration of Mesoamerica's Indigenous Societies 145 Susan Kellogg 8. Painting History, Reading Painted Histories: Ethnoliteracy in Prehispanic Oaxaca and Colonial Central Mexico 163 Elizabeth Bakewell and Byron Ellsworth Hamann Part III: The Silver Heart of the Spanish Empire: Colonial Experiences 193 9. The Gods Return: Conquest and Conquest Society (1502-1610) 195 Matthew Restall and Robert Schwaller 10. The Kingdom of New Spain in the Seventeenth Century 209 Linda A. Curcio-Nagy 11. The Enlightened Colony 230 Susan M. Deeds Part IV: Two Centuries of Independence: The Republican Century 249 12. Independence and the Generation of the Generals, 1810-1848 251 Christon I. Archer 13. The U.S. Intervention in Mexico, 1846-1848 262 Linda Arnold 14. Republicans and Monarchists, 1848-1867 273 Erika Pani 15. The Civilian and the General, 1867-1911 288 Paul Garner Special Themes 16. The Penal Code of 1871: From Religious to Civil Control of Everyday Life 302 Kathryn A. Sloan 17. Conquering the Environment and Surviving Natural Disasters 316 James A. Garza 18. Indigenism in General and the Maya in Particular in the Nineteenth Century 328 Terry Rugeley and Michele M. Stephens <...
