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A Concise History of Mexico: From Hidalgo to Cárdenas 1805-1940
Contributor(s): Bazant, Jan (Author)

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ISBN: 0521291739     ISBN-13: 9780521291736
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
OUR PRICE: $33.24  

Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions
Published: May 1977
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Annotation: Jan Bazant has woven into a coherent whole the chaotic series of political and social upheavals that characterised Mexican history.
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BISAC Categories:
- History | Latin America - Mexico
Dewey: 972
LCCN: 76-50086
Physical Information: 0.77" H x 5.49" W x 8.21" L (0.67 lbs) 236 pages
Themes:
- Cultural Region - Latin America
- Cultural Region - Mexican
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Jan Bazant has woven into a coherent whole the chaotic series of political and social upheavals that characterised Mexican history from the start of the struggle for independence through the completion of basic social reforms in 1940. The colonial reaction to the forced loans exacted by the Spanish government in 1805 to finance its war against Great Britain was, in Professor Bazant's view, the starting point of the Mexican independence movement. She argues that a new phase of Mexican history began when the liberals abolished the power and wealth of the Catholic Church. Mexico's rapid economic growth in the last quarter of the nineteenth century was largely the result of the stable political climate created by the dictatorship of Porfirio Diaz. Under Diaz however, most rural areas remained backward and it was precisely the contradiction between the urban, industrial economy and the traditional structure of the countryside that led to the Mexican civil war between 1910 and 1920. The agrarian reform finally transformed the rigid social system and created Mexico as we see it today.
 
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