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Describes the Maya and Aztec empires, chronicles the religious transformations, and sets the stage for the current revolutions in a record of a country whose tragic attempts to mesh Spanish and Indian culture have defined its history.

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The Maya and Olmecs mastered painting, sculpture and astronomy, but after the Spanish conquest the glories of ancient Mexico became dim ancestral memories. Mexican history, writes Ruiz, is mostly a tragedy, punctuated by sporadic triumphs exemplified by painter Jose Clemente Orozco and by reformist president Lazaras Cardenas, apostle of the downtrodden. Hard-hitting without being doctrinaire, this vastly illuminating people's history gives voice to the collective trauma of a nation decimated by Spanish colonial rule, betrayed by corrupt politicos and incompetent army chiefs, then manipulated into servile dependence on its neighbor to the north. Ruiz ( The Great Rebellion ), history professor at UC-San Diego, fuses cultural, political and social history. He shows that "trickle-down" capitalist economics since the early 1940s has been "a hoax" for the great majority of Mexicans. Photos. History Book Club alternate.
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Ruiz, who has authored other works on Mexico, provides a broad, sweeping narrative of Mexican history from pre-Colombian times to the present. He achieves a highly readable work, set to the theme of tragic development, providing a historical equivalent to Alan Riding's Distant Neighbors: A Portrait of the Mexicans ( LJ 1/85). His vignettes capture his major characters well, such as his vivid and informative rendition of Lazaro Cardenas. As might be expected in a work of this scope, emphasis is given to some events and actors and others are ignored, giving it a somewhat selective flavor. Surprisingly, Ruiz has little to say about the 1988 election, its political origins, and the extraordinary consequences in the aftermath. Still, this is highly recommended.
- Roderic A. Camp, Latin American Ctr., Tulane Univ., New Orleans, La.
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  • PublisherWW Norton & Co
  • Publication date1992
  • ISBN 10 0393030237
  • ISBN 13 9780393030235
  • BindingHardcover
  • Edition number1
  • Number of pages512
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