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The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (The Latin America Readers)
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by Gilbert M. Joseph
Sales Rank: 65800
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Cover Type: Paperback with 792 pages
Published by: Duke University Press January 2002
Written in: English
ISBN 10 Number: 0822330423
ISBN 13 Number: 978-0822330424
Book Dimensions:
9.2 x 6.2 x 2.1 inches
Weighs: 2.8 pounds
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This massive compilation of articles, essays, poetry, and photographs provides a wonderful introduction to the history and culture of Mexico. Joseph and Henderson are both historians with extensive backgrounds in Latin American and Mexican history. They have selected an eclectic mix of writers, many of them Mexican, including Carlos Fuentes and Octavio Paz. Topics range from the origins and growth of the Aztec Empire to the causes of the Mexican Revolution to the problems facing modern Mexico. There are well-thought-out political tracts here, as well as screeds against political corruption and economic exploitation that drip with outrage. What emerges is a portrait of the "many Mexicos" in which the wealthy, the growing middle class, and the impoverished indigenous peoples are all struggling to find their place in an exciting and rapidly changing land. This work is ideal for general readers, and one hopes it will encourage many to read and learn more about this important and diverse nation. Jay Freeman
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“Anyone who has a keen interest in Mexico—in delving deep into the country’s rich history and culture before going there—would be fascinated by this book.”
--June Sawyers, Chicago Tribune
"[A] careful selection of articles and texts that cover a wide variety of subjects. . . . Originally written in Spanish, these texts have been masterfully translated into English. . . . [T]he collection can be understood as a survey of intellectual culture in Mexico from a historical perspective, allowing readers to understand how Mexican reality has been conformed, transformed, and adapted. Recommended."
--M. R. Lara, Choice
"[A]n exciting, comprehensive, truly superior collection of Mexican literature. . . . In all of my reading about Mexico -- and I have read extensively the old and the new -- I have never experienced a better and more thorough collection of works about this mysterious and marvelous country."
--Wayne Greenhaw, Southern Scribe Reviews
"This is certainly a stimulating and informative compilation."
--British Bulletin of Publications
"Teachers will find a awesome wealth of material in this new anthology, allowing them to choose selections supporting a wide range of historical approaches, and at a surprisingly affordable price. . . . [T]his volume will make a thought provoking read for undergraduate students, for vacationers on the beach in Acapulco, or-a professor's spring break fantasy-or both."
--Jeffrey M. Pilcher, The Americas
"This anthology is obviously destined for classroom use and appears to be suitable for supplemental textbook assignments for both survey and two-part courses in Mexican history."
--Colonial Latin American Historical Review
"There is an impressive, even passionate, commitment to excavating the embedded cultural, political, and economic reference points that arguably constitute something called a Mexican nationalist imaginary. At the same time, the editors have methodologically sought out the contradictions of that imaginary, offering both official, and many unofficial, voices. The result simultaneously exposes and subverts the nation's foundational fictions. . . . [I]mpressive."
--Eric Zolov, Hispanic American Historical Review
"[The Mexico Reader] could be the foundation of an exciting course. . . . You will not find a more varied or fearless introductory volume to Mexican Studies. . . . [T]he volume is well presented. . . . Translations . . . are expertly done. . . . The most impressive aspect of the volume is the variety of voices it reveals. . . . [R]emarkable."
--Timothy E. Anna, H-Net, H-LatAm
"This volume is a most sincere attempt to depict Mexico in all its complexity, an object carried out superbly and in an altogether unprecedented fashion. Very seldom has a reader, an analytically-challenged subgenre by definition, done as much justice to any Latin American country."
--Héctor D. Fernández L'Hoeste, The Latin Americanist
"Three layers of introductions-for the volume, for each section and for each text-provide necessary contextual information, while highlighting emerging themes. Thanks in part to these great introductions, students and teachers of Mexico will find that this volume could supplant textbook histories, while giving students access to hundreds of pages of primary sources, well-chosen images and two photo-essays."
--Patience A. Schnell, Journal of Latin American Studies
"The volume's main virtue . . . is that it enables the non-Spanish-speaking reader to actually access a number of arguably key Mexican texts that cannot be obtained elsewhere in translation."
--Will Fowler, Bulletin of Latin American Research
“Gil Joseph and Tim Henderson must be commended for tackling the onerous task of compiling a reader entirely devoted to Mexico…. The Mexico Reader presents a diverse, original, and rare collection of primary and secondary texts…. The Mexico Reader is poised to become a highly prized collection of texts that any instructor will want to use and any student of Mexico will enjoy reading.”
--Juliette Levy, New Mexico Historical Review
Reader Reviews
Different and refreshing approach to Mexican history. Insightful and informative selections from both well known and more obscure original sources. Sections are brief and on point. Excellent bedside book. Outstanding as a stand alone work and valuable as a reference to more complete treatment of subjects you find particularly interesting. Balanced and objective. Best work on Mexico I've read in quite some time.
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