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<p>List of Figures xi</p> <p>Notes on Contributors xv</p> <p>Introduction: The Dimensions of the Mexican Experience 1</p> <p><b>PART I: The Mexican Experience 11</b></p> <p>1. Living the Vida Local: Contours of Everyday Life 13<br /><i>William E. French</i></p> <p>2. On the Street Corner where Stereotypes are Born: Mexico City, 1940–1968 34<br /><i>Ricardo Pérez Montfort</i></p> <p>3. Consumption and Material Culture from Pre-Contact through the Porfiriato 54<br /><i>Steven B. Bunker and Víctor M. Macías-González</i></p> <p>4. Consumption and Material Culture in the Twentieth Century 83<br /><i>Steven B. Bunker and Víctor M. Macías-González</i></p> <p>5. Geographic Regionalism and Natural Diversity 119<br /><i>Christopher R. Boyer</i></p> <p>6. The Cactus Metaphor 131<br /><i>David Yetman</i></p> <p><b>PART II: The Indigenous World Before the Europeans 143</b></p> <p>7. The Gods Depart: Riddles of the Rise, Fall, and Regeneration of Mesoamerica’s Indigenous Societies 145<br /><i>Susan Kellogg</i></p> <p>8. Painting History, Reading Painted Histories: Ethnoliteracy in Prehispanic Oaxaca and Colonial Central Mexico 163<br /><i>Elizabeth Bakewell and Byron Ellsworth Hamann</i></p> <p><b>PART III: The Silver Heart of the Spanish Empire: Colonial Experiences 193</b></p> <p>9. The Gods Return: Conquest and Conquest Society (1502–1610) 195<br /><i>Matthew Restall and Robert Schwaller</i></p> <p>10. The Kingdom of New Spain in the Seventeenth Century 209<br /><i>Linda A. Curcio-Nagy</i></p> <p>11. The Enlightened Colony 230<br /><i>Susan M. Deeds</i></p> <p><b>PART IV: Two Centuries of Independence: The Republican Century 249</b></p> <p>12. Independence and the Generation of the Generals, 1810–1848 251<br /><i>Christon I. Archer</i></p> <p>13. The U.S. Intervention in Mexico, 1846–1848 262<br /><i>Linda Arnold</i></p> <p>14. Republicans and Monarchists, 1848–1867 273<br /><i>Erika Pani</i></p> <p>15. The Civilian and the General, 1867–1911 288<br /><i>Paul Garner</i></p> <p><b>Special Themes</b></p> <p>16. The Penal Code of 1871: From Religious to Civil Control of Everyday Life 302<br /><i>Kathryn A. Sloan</i></p> <p>17. Conquering the Environment and Surviving Natural Disasters 316<br /><i>James A. Garza</i></p> <p>18. Indigenism in General and the Maya in Particular in the Nineteenth Century 328<br /><i>Terry Rugeley and Michele M. Stephens</i></p> <p>19. A Brief History of the Historia moderna de México 339<br /><i>Servando Ortoll and Pablo Piccato</i></p> <p>20. The House at Sadi Carnot 33: Amateur Photography and Domestic Architecture in Porfirian Culture 361<br /><i>Patricia Massé</i></p> <p>21. Disorder and Control: Crime, Justice and Punishment in Porfirian and Revolutionary Society 371<br /><i>Elisa Speckman Guerra</i></p> <p>22. Military and Nation in Mexico, 1821–1916 390<br /><i>Stephen Neufeld</i></p> <p><b>PART V: Two Centuries of Independence: The Revolutionary Century 405</b></p> <p>23. The Sonoran Dynasty and the Reconstruction of the Mexican State 407<br /><i>Jürgen Buchenau</i></p> <p>24. Creating a Revolutionary Culture: Vasconcelos, Indians, Anthropologists, and Calendar Girls 420<br /><i>William H. Beezley</i></p> <p>25. Counter Revolutionary Programs: Social Catholicism and the Cristeros 439<br /><i>Daniel Newcomer</i></p> <p>26. The Apogee of Revolution, 1934–1946 453<br /><i>Susie Porter</i></p> <p>27. The Revolution’s Second Generation: The Miracle, 1946–1982 and Collapse of the PRI, 1982–2000 468<br /><i>Roderic Ai. Camp</i></p> <p><b>Special Themes</b></p> <p>28. Photographing Indian Peoples: Ethnography as Kaleidoscope 480<br /><i>Deborah Dorotinsky</i></p> <p>29. Challenges, Political Opposition, Economic Disaster, Natural Disaster and Democratization, 1968 to 2000 493<br /><i>Ariel Rodríguez Kuri</i></p> <p>30. Fighting Bacteria, the Bible, and the Bottle: Projects to Create New Men, Women, and Children, 1910–1940 505<br /><i>Gretchen Pierce</i></p> <p>31. Environment and Environmentalism 518<br /><i>Emily Wakild</i></p> <p>32. Peculiarities of Mexican Diplomacy 538<br /><i>Monica Rankin and Dina Berger</i></p> <p>33. Science and Public Health in the Century of Revolution 561<br /><i>Gabriela Soto Laveaga and Claudia Agostoni</i></p> <p>34. A Century of Childhood: Growing up in Twentieth-Century Mexico 575<br /><i>Elena Jackson Albarrán</i></p> <p>35. ¡De Pie y en Lucha! Indigenous Mobilizations After 1940 589<br /><i>María L. Olin Muñoz</i></p> <p>36. Mexican Immigration to the United States 604<br /><i>Timothy J. Henderson</i></p> <p>37. Sex, Death and Structuralism: Alternative Views of the Twentieth Century 616<br /><i>Paul Gillingham</i></p> <p>38. For Further Research: Space, Sense, and Sensibility 633<br /><i>Ageeth Sluis</i></p> <p>Index 654</p>

<p>“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.”  (<i>Reference Reviews</i>, 2012)</p> <p>"Summing Up: Recommend. All levels/libraries." (Choice, 1 January 2012)</p>

<b>William H. Beezley</b> is Professor of History at the University of Arizona, co-Director of the Oaxaca Cultural Institute, and Visiting Distinguished Professor at El Colegio de Mexico. He is the author or editor of 20 volumes on Mexico and Latin America, including <i>Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico, second edition</i> (2004), <i>Mexican National Identity: Memory, Insinuation, and Popular Culture</i> (2008), and <i>Mexicans in Revolution, 1910-1946</i> (2008).

<i>A Companion to Mexican History and Culture</i> features 40 carefully chosen essays that focus on new approaches to the rich tradition of 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. An introductory section providing overall context is followed by essays focusing on the major chronological eras in Mexican history: Indigenous Cultures before Columbus, Colonial New Spain, and Independent Mexico, which is divided into two sections. Principal historic figures, institutions, the environment, and scientific and medical developments are discussed in individual essays. Also covered are recent historical interpretations with critical historiographical sources. The readings in <i>A Companion to Mexican History and Culture</i> reflect the important new trends in the study of history that have led to a more sensitive narrative and revealing portrait of Mexico's dramatic and complex past and rich cultural traditions.

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