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An illustrated introduction to Mexico's historical and contemporary issues, problems and events.
Brian R. Hamnett offers a comprehensive and comparative assessment of the independence era in both Spanish America and Brazil.
This updated edition offers an accessible and richly illustrated study of Mexico's political, social, economic and cultural history.
Studies in Spanish American regional history have, as yet, made little attempt to incorporate the struggles for independence within the context of provincial society and politics viewed over the broader period that spans the late colonial and early national experience of Latin America. This book attempts a new perspective: it emphasises the provincial milieu and popular participation in its varied forms, often ambiguous and contradictory. The central aim is to examine social conflicts, chiefly in the Mexican provinces of Puebla, Guadalajara, Michoacán, and Guanajuato from the middle of the eighteenth century, and to assess their relationship to the widespread insurgency of the second decade of the nineteenth century.
Juarez, the Indian-born (Zapotec) founding father of modern Mexico, championed a newly-independent, largely non-white nation. He struggled to preserve the integrity of Mexico as a sovereign state in the face of US pressure and European intervention; and, as President, his brand of Liberalism broke with the Indian and Hispanic pasts, curbed the power of church and army, and promoted federalism and civil rule.
Presents a broad thematic perspective and chronological sweep of Mexico, from the pre-Columbian era to the present day.
A cultural guide to the Mexico City.
Brian Hamnett examines key historical novels by Scott, Balzac, Manzoni, Dickens, Eliot, Flaubert, Fontane, Galdós, and Tolstoy, revealing the contradictions inherent in this form of fiction and exploring the challenges writers encountered in attempting to represent a reality that linked past and present.
Privatization has spread worldwide during the 1980s and 1990s, and has significantly reshaped the balance between state and market in many countries. This book provides a comparative political analysis of the development, form, character and causes of privatization in three countries: the UK, USA and France. The authors argue that privatization is a political phenomenon and should be analyzed as such, rather than being seen as an economic response to the growth of the state and the cost of state provision. Privatization frequently has explicit political goals, and has consequences which redistribute costs and benefits to different groups. The book presents a threefold typology of privatization policy - pragmatic, tactical and systemic - and relates it to the experiences of USA, France and UK respectively. It will be of interest to students and scholars of politics, economics, public policy and business studies, as well as policy-makers and consultants in the field of privatization.
This work is an exploration of 'the Black Legend', the popular myth that colonial Spain and her military religious agents were brutal and unrelenting in their conquest of the Americas.