The History of Mexico - Softcover

Russell, Philip L.

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0415872375 ISBN 13: 9780415872379

Publisher: Routledge, 2010

Synopsis

The History of Mexico: From Pre-Conquest to Present traces the last 500 years of Mexican history, from the indigenous empires that were devastated by the Spanish conquest through the election of 2006 and its aftermath. The book offers a straightforward chronological survey of Mexican history from the pre-colonial times to the present, and includes a glossary as well as numerous tables and images for comprehensive study.

In lively and engaging prose, Philip Russell guides readers through major themes that still resonate today including:

• The role of women in society
• Environmental change
• The evolving status of Mexico’s indigenous people
• African slavery and the role of race
• Government economic policy
• Foreign relations with the United States and others

The companion website provides many useful student tools including multiple choice questions, extra book chapters, and links to online resources, as well as digital copies of the maps from the book.

For additional information and classroom resources please visit The History of Mexico companion website at www.routledge.com/textbooks/russell.

About this title

About the Author:

Philip Russell is an independent historian and author of Mexico Under Salinas.

Review:

'Recommended. General and undergraduate libraries.' – Choice

'[A] very thorough, useful, and readable history of Mexico. The author presents a clear, well informed, and well argued interpretation of Mexican history which emphasizes the country’s economic and social foundations, its political evolution and which takes up at every turn the issues of class, race, gender, the environment, and foreign relations. While this book has 607 pages of text in rather small type, the chapter divisions and subheads make the book easy to read. Russell has been remarkably successful in synthesizing current scholarship on Mexico. Written as a text book with a companion website, this book is quite accessible to the general reader and an excellent reference.' – Mexico Labor News and Analysis

'Philip Russell's History of Mexico distils of some of the best scholarship on Mexico and many important primary sources into a general history that makes the bibliography alone worthy of a place on the shelves of both the serious scholar of modern Mexico and the interested novice. Luckily, the narrative of this voluminous work is also well organised and in Russell's characteristic crystal-clear prose." - Bulletin of Latin American Research

About this edition

• Publisher: Routledge
• Publication date: 2010
• ISBN 10: 0415872375
• ISBN 13: 9780415872379
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 808