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Book SynopsisA 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.
Trade Review“This book is definitely a valuable contribution to the understanding of Mexican politics during the different eras and it is the first volume to incorporate a discussion of popular music in political analysis.” (Reference Reviews, 2012)
"Summing Up: Recommend. All levels/libraries." (Choice, 1 January 2012)
Table of ContentsList 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
19. A Brief History of the Historia moderna de México 339
Servando Ortoll and Pablo Piccato
20. The House at Sadi Carnot 33: Amateur Photography and Domestic Architecture in Porfirian Culture 361
Patricia Massé
21. Disorder and Control: Crime, Justice and Punishment in Porfirian and Revolutionary Society 371
Elisa Speckman Guerra
22. Military and Nation in Mexico, 1821–1916 390
Stephen Neufeld
PART V: Two Centuries of Independence: The Revolutionary Century 405
23. The Sonoran Dynasty and the Reconstruction of the Mexican State 407
Jürgen Buchenau
24. Creating a Revolutionary Culture: Vasconcelos, Indians, Anthropologists, and Calendar Girls 420
William H. Beezley
25. Counter Revolutionary Programs: Social Catholicism and the Cristeros 439
Daniel Newcomer
26. The Apogee of Revolution, 1934–1946 453
Susie Porter
27. The Revolution’s Second Generation: The Miracle, 1946–1982 and Collapse of the PRI, 1982–2000 468
Roderic Ai. Camp
Special Themes
28. Photographing Indian Peoples: Ethnography as Kaleidoscope 480
Deborah Dorotinsky
29. Challenges, Political Opposition, Economic Disaster, Natural Disaster and Democratization, 1968 to 2000 493
Ariel Rodríguez Kuri
30. Fighting Bacteria, the Bible, and the Bottle: Projects to Create New Men, Women, and Children, 1910–1940 505
Gretchen Pierce
31. Environment and Environmentalism 518
Emily Wakild
32. Peculiarities of Mexican Diplomacy 538
Monica Rankin and Dina Berger
33. Science and Public Health in the Century of Revolution 561
Gabriela Soto Laveaga and Claudia Agostoni
34. A Century of Childhood: Growing up in Twentieth-Century Mexico 575
Elena Jackson Albarrán
35. ¡De Pie y en Lucha! Indigenous Mobilizations After 1940 589
María L. Olin Muñoz
36. Mexican Immigration to the United States 604
Timothy J. Henderson
37. Sex, Death and Structuralism: Alternative Views of the Twentieth Century 616
Paul Gillingham
38. For Further Research: Space, Sense, and Sensibility 633
Ageeth Sluis
Index 654
