William H Beezley

Mexico in World History

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Beginning with the Mayan and Aztec civilizations and their brutal defeat at the hands of the Conquistadors, Beezley discusses Spain's three-hundred-year colonial rule, foreign invasions and huge territorial losses at the hands of the United States, and conditions in Mexico today.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Oxford University Press, USA
• Seitenzahl: 200
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2011
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 233mm x 156mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 342g
• ISBN-13: 9780195337907
• ISBN-10: 0195337905
• Artikelnr.: 32730908

Autorenporträt

William H. Beezley is Professor of History at the University of Arizona and co-editor of The Oxford History of Mexico (with Michael Meyers).

Inhaltsangabe

Editors' Preface
Preface
1.: Chapter 1: First Cultures and Indigenous Empires
2.: Chapter 2: Conquest and Colony
3.: Chapter 3: Independence and its Challenges, 1810-1844
4.: Chapter 4: Embattled Mexico, 1844-1876
5.: Chapter 5: Progress for Mexico and Some Mexicans, 1876-1911
6.: Chapter 6: Revolution, 1910-1946
7.: Chapter 7: Revolution for Middling Mexicans and its End, 1938-1982
8.: Chapter 8: Contemporary Mexico
Chronology
Notes
Further Reading
Websites
Index