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Mexican history : a primary source reader /

"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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:	Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores:	Jaffary, Nora E., 1968- (Editor ), Osowski, Edward W. (Editor ), Porter, Susie S., 1965- (Editor )
Formato:	Electrónico eBook
Idioma:	Inglés
Publicado:	Boulder, CO : Westview Press, [2010]
Colección:	Anthropology online.
Temas:	Mexico > History > Sources. Mexique > Histoire > Sources. Mexico. Mexiko History. Electronic books. Sources.
Acceso en línea:	Texto completo

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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).
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.

Mexican history : a primary source reader /

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