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Informationen zum Autor Jürgen Buchenau is Professor of History and Director of Latin American Studies at UNC Charlotte. He received his Ph.D. in History in 1993 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. His research interests are the international history of Mexico, immigration, and the Mexican Revolution. He is the author of In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico's Central America Policy (Tuscaloosa, 1996), Tools of Progress: A German Merchant Family in Mexico City (Albuquerque, 2004), Mexico OtherWise: Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers (Albuquerque, 2005), and Plutarco Elías Calles and the Mexican Revolution (Lanham, MD, 2007). Buchenau has received fellowships from the national Endowment of the Humanities and the German Academic Exchange Service as well as grants from the U.S. Department of Education, the Tinker Foundation, the American Philosophical Society, and the Southern Regional Education Board. Klappentext This book highlights Mexico's stunning geographical! ethnic! and social diversity and focuses primarily on the period since independence in 1821. Effectively summarizing Mexico's rich history! this book delineates some of the major processes at the national level! as well as on regional and local counter-currents. Zusammenfassung This book highlights Mexico's stunning geographical! ethnic! and social diversity and focuses primarily on the period since independence in 1821. Effectively summarizing Mexico's rich history! this book delineates some of the major processes at the national level! as well as on regional and local counter-currents. Inhaltsverzeichnis Editor's Forward vii Acknowledgments xi Introduction 1 Chapter One: The Making of Mexico 9 Chapter Two: Independence and Upheaval 37 Chapter Three: Liberal Modernization 60 Chapter Four: The Mexican Revolution 78 Chapter Five: Mexico since World War II 105 Bibliography Essay 131 Glossary 147 Index 151 Photographers Follow page 104 Maps! 13! 36! 107 ...
