p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" Mexican History is a comprehensive and innovative primary source reader in Mexican history from the pre-Columbian past to the neoliberal present. Chronologically organized chapters facilitate the book's assimilation into most course syllabi. Its selection of documents thoughtfully conveys enduring themes of Mexican history- land and labour, indigenous people, religion, and state formation- while also incorporating recent advances in scholarly research on the frontier, urban life, popular culture, race and ethnicity, and gender. Student-friendly pedagogical features include contextual introductions to each chapter and each reading, lists of key terms and related sources, and guides to recommended readings and Web-based resources.

About the Author
p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"Nora E. Jaffary is associate professor of history at Concordia University, Montreal. Her books include False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico and Gender, Race, and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas. p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"Edward W. Osowski teaches in the history department at John Abbott College in Montreal. He specializes in Mexico's indigenous history, frequently using Nahuatl-language documents in his research. His monograph on eighteenth-century Nahua history is forthcoming with the University of Arizona Press. p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"Susie S. Porter is associate professor of history and the gender studies program at the University of Utah. She is the author of Working Women in Mexico City, which won an Outstanding Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association in 2005. p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"

Reviews
"What a thrilling voyage across five centuries of Mexican history! The editors have struck an ideal balance between fundamental texts and lesser-known sources that bring to life the everyday experiences, social structures, and political watersheds from the conquest to the present. Instructors, students, and anyone interested in Mexico will find it an indispensable collection of the voices that have forged the Mexican nation." -Christopher Boyer, University of Illinois at Chicago "An excellent tool to teach and discover Mexican history, this book reflects the breadth and depth of the editors' own research. The selection of texts is both rigorous and imaginative. It entails both a long duree view of Mexican history and a careful sensibility for the diversity of voices and textual sources that are necessary to understand that history. It will engage students and generate fruitful conversations in the classroom and beyond." -Pablo Piccato, ColumbiaUniversity



Book Information
ISBN 9780813343341
Author Edward Osowski
Format Paperback
Page Count 480
Imprint Westview Press Inc
Publisher Taylor & Francis Inc
Weight(grams) 676g
Dimensions(mm) 227mm * 155mm * 29mm