
Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico
Michael Werner(Author)
Routledge (Publisher)
1st Edition
Published on 1. August 2001
Book
Hardback
1016 pages
978-1-57958-337-8 (ISBN)
Description
Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico includes approximately 250 articles on the people and topics most relevant to students seeking information about Mexico. Although the Concise version is a unique single-volume source of information on the entire sweep of Mexican history-pre-colonial, colonial, and moderns-it will emphasize events that affecting Mexico today, event students most need to understand.
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Language
English
Place of publication
New York
United States
Publishing group
Taylor & Francis Inc
Dimensions
Height: 254 mm
Width: 178 mm
Weight
2040 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-57958-337-8 (9781579583378)
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Person
Michael Werner
Content
A: A; African Mexicans; Agustin I (Emperor of Mexico); Alaman, Lucas 1792-1853; Architecture; Architecture: Colonial; Architecture: Nineteenth Century; Architecture: Twentieth Century; Ayutla, Revolution of; Aztecs; Azuela, Mariano 1873-1952; B: B; Borders; Bullfighting; C: C; Calderon de la Barca, Fanny 1804-82; Calles, Plutarco Elias 1877-1945; Campobello, Nellie 1900-; Cantinflas; Cardenas, Cuauhtemoc 1934-; Cardenas, Lazaro 1895-1970; Carranza, Venustiano 1859-1920; Castellanos, Rosario 1925-1974; Caste War of Yucatan; Catholic Church; Catholic Church: Colonial Structure, Divisions, and Hierarchy; Catholic Church: Hapsburg New Spain; Catholic Church: Bourbon New Spain; Catholic Church: 1821-1910; Catholic Church: 1910-96; Cedillo, Saturnino 1890-1939; Chiapas Zapatista Rebellion; Conquest; Conquest: Spanish Background; Conquest: Central Mexico; Conquest: Yucatan; Conquest: Northern Mexico; Conquest: Demographic Impact; Conquest: Ecological Impact; Conquistadors; Conservatism; Constitution of 1917; Corridos; Cortes, Fernando (Hernan) 1484 or 1485-1547; Cristero Rebellion; Cruz, Sor Juana Ines de la 1651-95; Cuisine; D: D; Day of the Dead; De la Huerta, Adolfo 1881-1955; De Las Casas, Bartolome; Diaz, Porfirio 1830-1915; Diaz, Porfirio: Biography; Diaz, Porfirio: Interpretive Discussion; Diaz del Castillo, Bernal c.1495-1584; Dona Marina; Drug Trade; E: E; Earthquake of 1985; Ecology; Ejercito Zapatista de Liberacion Nacional; Elias Calles, Plutarco; Ezln; F: F; Family and Kinship; Family and Kinship: Hapsburg Colonial Period; Family and Kinship: Bourbon Colonial Period and Nineteenth Century; Family and Kinship: Twentieth Century; Fernandez, Manuel Felix; Foreign Policy; Foreign Policy: 1821-76; Foreign Policy: 1876-1910; Foreign Policy: 1910-46; Foreign Policy: 1946-96; French Intervention; Fuentes, Carlos 1928-; G: G; Galvez, Jose de 1720-87; Gatt; Gender; Gender: Overview; Gender: Gender and Mexican Spanish; General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); Great Depression; Guadalupanismo; Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of; Guerrero, Vicente 1782-1831; H: H; Hapsburg, Ferdinand Maximilian von; Hidalgo Revolt; Hidalgo y Costilla, Miguel 1753-1811; Huerta, Victoriano 1854-1916; Human Rights; I: I; Independence Wars; Industrial Labor; Industrial Labor: 1876-1910; Industrial Labor: 1910-40; Industrial Labor: 1940-96; Industry and Industrialization; Inquisition; Iturbide, Agustin de 1783-1824; J: J; Juarez, Benito 1806-72; K: K; Kahlo, Frida 1907-54; Kinship; L: L; Las Casas, Bartolome de 1484-1566; Lerdo de Tejada, Sebastian 1827-89; Liberalism; Limantour, Jose Yves 1854-1935; Literature and National Identity, 1910-96; Lombardo Toledano, Vicente 1894-1968; Lopez de Santa Anna, Antonio; M: M; Madero, Francisco I. 1873-1913; Maize; La Malinche and Malinchismo; Maquiladoras; Marina, Dona; Massacre of Tlatelolco; Maximilian (Ferdinand Maximilian von Hapsburg) 1832-67; Mesoamerica; Mesoamerica: Introduction; Mesoamerica: Maya; Mesoamerica: Mexica; Mesoamerica: Monte Alban; Mesoamerica: Olmec; Mesoamerica: Teotihuacan; Mesoamerica: Toltec; Mesoamerica: Veracruz, Classic and Postclassic; Mesoamerica: Agriculture and Ecology; Mesoamerica: Calendrics; Mesoamerica: Population; Mesoamerica: Religion; Mesoamerica: Warfare; Mesoamerica: Writing; Mestizaje; Mexica; Mexican American Communities; Mexican-American War; Mexican Revolution; Mexican Revolution: Causes; Mexican Revolution: October 1910-February 1913; Mexican Revolution: February 1913-October 1915; Mexican Revolution: October 1915-May 1917; Mexican Revolution: May 1917-December 1920; Mexican Spanish; Migration to the United States; Migration to the United States: 1876-1940; Migration to the United States: 1940-96; Military; Military: Bourbon New Spain; Military: 1821-1914; Military: 1914-96; Mining: Colonial; Missions; Modernism; Mora, Jose Maria Luis 1794-1850; Morelos, Jose Maria 1765-1815; Moreno Reyes, Mario (Cantinflas) 1913-93; Morones, Luis Napoleon 1890-1964; Motion Pictures; Motion Pictures: 1896-1930; Motion Pictures: 1930-60; Motion Pictures: 1960-96; Music; Music: Mesoamerica through Seventeenth Century; Music: Eighteenth Century; Music: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; N: N; Nafta; Nahua Rulers, Pre-Hispanic; Nationalism; North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); O: O; Obregon, Alvaro 1880-1928; Orozco, Jose Clemente 1883-1949; Orozco Vazquez, Pascual, Jr. 1882-1915; P: P; Partido de Accion Nacional (PAN); Partido de la Revolucion Democratica (PRD); Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI); Paz, Octavio 1914-; Peso Crisis of 1994; Petroleum; Petroleum: Pre-1938; Petroleum: 1938-96; Photography; Politics and Government; Politics and Government: Hapsburg New Spain; Politics and Government: Bourbon New Spain; Politics and Government: 1821-76; Politics and Government: 1876-1910; Politics and Government: 1910-46; Politics and Government: 1946-96; Poniatowska, Elena 1933-; Popular Catholicism; Popular Liberalism; Prd; Pri; Prints; Protestantism; Q: Q; Quetzalcoatl; R: R; Radio; Railroads; Reform Laws; Reform Wars; Revolution, Mexican; Revolution of Ayutla; Reyes, Bernardo 1850-1913; Rivera, Diego 1886-1957; Ruiz Garcia, Samuel 1924-; Rulfo, Juan 1918-86; Rural Economy and Society; Rural Economy and Society: Colonial; Rural Economy and Society: 1821-1910; Resistance and Rebellion; Rural Economy and Society: 1910-40; Rural Economy and Society: 1940-96, Land-Labor Regimes; Rural Economy and Society: 1940-96, Resistance and Rebellion; S: S; Sahagun, Bernardino de c. 1499-1590; Salinas de Gortari, Carlos 1948-; Santa Anna, Antonio Lopez de 1794-1876; Science; Sexuality; Siqueiros, David Alfaro 1896-1974; Sor Juana Ines de la Cruz; Spanish Language in Mexico; Sports; Student Movement of 1968; T: T; Telenovelas; Television; Teotihuacan; Terrazas Fuentes, Luis 1829-1923; Texan Secession; Three Years War; Tlatelolco, Massacre of; Toltec; Tourism; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; Triple Alliance; U: U; Urbanism and Urbanization; U.S.-Mexican Border; U.S.-Mexican Border: 1821-1910; U.S.-Mexican Border: 1910-96; U.S.-Mexican Border: Border Urbanism; U.S.-Mexican War; V: V; Vasconcelos, Jose 1882-1959; Velazquez Sanchez, Fidel 1900-97; Veracruz, Classic and Postclassic Mesoamerican; Victoria, Guadalupe 1785-1843; Villa, Francisco (Pancho) 1878-1923; Virgin of Guadalupe and Guadalupanismo; Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Mesoamerica; Visual Arts: Sixteenth Century; Visual Arts: Seventeenth Century; Visual Arts: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Academic Art; Visual Arts: 1910-37, The Revolutionary Tradition; Visual Arts: 1920-45, Art outside the Revolutionary Tradition; Visual Arts: 1945-96; W: W; Wars of Independence; Wars of Reform (Three Years War); Women's Status and Occupation; Women's Status and Occupation: Mesoamerica; Women's Status and Occupation: Indian Women in New Spain; Women's Status and Occupation: Spanish Women in New Spain; Women's Status and Occupation: 1821-1910; Women's Status and Occupation: 1910-96; World Trade Organization; Z: Z; Zapata, Emiliano 1879-1919; Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas; Zapotecs, Mesoamerican; Zedillo Ponce de Leon, Ernesto 1951-