Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change : Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in M...

by Leticia Reina

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Cycles of Conflict, Centuries of Change : Crisis, Reform, and Revolution in Mexico, Paperback by Servin, Elisa (EDT); Reina, Leticia (EDT); Tutino, John (EDT), ISBN 082234002X, ISBN-13 9780822340027, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US This important collection explores how Mexico&;s tumultuous past informs its uncertain present and future. Cycles of crisis and reform, of conflict and change, have marked Mexico&;s modern history. The final decades of the eighteenth, nineteenth, and twentieth centuries each brought efforts to integrate Mexico into globalizing economies, pressures on the country&;s diverse peoples, and attempts at reform. The crises of the late eighteenth century and the late nineteenth led to revolutionary mobilizations and violent regime changes. The wars for independence that began in 1810 triggered conflicts that endured for decades; the national revolution that began in 1910 shaped Mexico for most of the twentieth century. In 2000, the PRI, which had ruled for more than seventy years, was defeated in an election some hailed as &;revolution by ballot.&; Mexico now struggles with the legacies of a late-twentieth-century crisis defined by accelerating globalization and the breakdown of an authoritarian regime that was increasingly unresponsive to historic mandates and popular demands. Leading Mexicanists&;historians and social scientists from Mexico, the United States, and Europe&;examine the three fin-de-siècle eras of crisis. They focus on the role of th

• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Year: 2007
• Binding: Paperback
• ISBN: 9780822340027
• Condition: Fine

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