
Mexico In Focus 2nd Edition
A Guide to the People, Politics and Culture
Series: Latin America In Focus
Published: 2002
Pages: 102
eBook: 9781909013292
Paperback: 9781899365500
Section Title | Page | Action | Price |
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Title Page | 1 | ||
Copyright Page | 2 | ||
Table of Contents | 3 | ||
Introduction | 4 | ||
1: The Land | 6 | ||
Borders | 6 | ||
The North | 9 | ||
Central Mexico | 11 | ||
Mexico's South | 12 | ||
The Capital | 14 | ||
2: People and their History | 18 | ||
iViva Mexico! | 18 | ||
Indigenous Mexico | 20 | ||
From the Ruins | 22 | ||
Conquest and Colony | 25 | ||
Liberators, Presidents, Emperors, and Dictators | 28 | ||
The Mexican Revolution | 31 | ||
3: Society | 36 | ||
Institutionalizing the Revolution | 36 | ||
The PRI: The Limits of Longevity | 38 | ||
The American-Style Presidency | 40 | ||
Political Opposition in Mexico | 41 | ||
The Political Parties | 46 | ||
Keeping the Peace | 49 | ||
The Criminal Police | 56 | ||
The Dysfunctional Courts | 57 | ||
So Far from God | 58 | ||
Farm and Factory | 62 | ||
Old-Style Unions Persevere | 64 | ||
4: Economy | 67 | ||
Mexican Miracles, Booms and Busts | 67 | ||
NAFTA and the New World Order | 69 | ||
Engines of the Economy | 72 | ||
5: Art and Culture | 78 | ||
High and Low Art | 78 | ||
Urban Pop Culture | 80 | ||
The Word | 83 | ||
So Close to the United States | 87 | ||
Where to Go, What to See | 89 | ||
Further Reading and Selected Weblinks | 93 | ||
Facts and Figures | 96 |
John Ross
John Ross is based in Mexico City and is the author of Rebellion from the Roots: Indian Uprising in Chiapas (Common Courage Press, 1994) which won an American Book Award, and The War Against Oblivion-Zapatista Chronicles 1994-2000 (Common Courage Press,2000). His journalism appears regularly in L.A. Weekly and Noticias Aliadas (Lima).
Gregory Gransden
Gregory Gransden is a Canadian journalist and filmmaker who lived in Mexico City for several years and is still a regular visitor there. A graduate of the Columbia University School of Journalism and the American Film Institute, he is currently working on a book and documentary series on Mexican popular culture.