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Mexico: From Montezuma to Nafta, Chiapas, and Beyond [Hardcover]

Jaime Suchlicki (Author)
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January 1, 1996
In this fascinating thousand year survey of America's controversial and rapidly changing neighbor, a leading expert on Latin America explains how Mexico's present and future flow directly from its past. Going well beyond analyses of recent crises, Mexico is an engrossing, pellucid introduction to the Indian civilization, the harsh rule of the Spaniards, social violence and revolution, and the country's mercurial relationship with the United States up to the present.

Jaime Suchlicki indicates that Mexico's turbulent history contains recurring and often contradictory trends. He convincingly describes how that history contributes to Mexico's current and arguably future difficulties. With an engaging style that brings a colorful story to life, the author provides sophisticated insights into the exciting historical development of America's increasingly important trading partner. Mexico contains numerous rare photographs and offers an up-to-date perspective on Mexico of today and tomorrow, including an assessment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) and its implications for the future of United States-Mexican relations.

Upon its initial release, Mexico was hailed by Mario Ojeda Gomez, president of El Colegio de Mexico "as provocative and current. The writing is sharp and the ideas are clear and original. Suchlicki has focused on important aspects of Mexico's history and has explained them with intelligence, selecting what is really significant." And Manuel Suarez Mier of the Technological Institute of Mexico (ITAM) writes that Suchlicki's book is "objective and appreciative, and will enable readers to better understand Mexico and its behavior. This is a fascinating and timely book."

This edition includes a new introduction by the author. --This text refers to the paperback edition of this title


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Suchlicki, former director of the North-South Center at the University of Miami, provides a well-written, comprehensive, historical narrative of Mexico from the time of the conquest through the Zedillo administration. Although the book focuses primarily on the period between 1500 and 1970, Suchlicki argues that many of the variables in the present crises can be found in Mexico's historical experience, and he specifically identifies a number of social, political, and economic themes that have characterized its political development, including regionalism, church-state conflict, U.S. influence, ethnic competition, and liberal-conservative dominance. A concise, balanced introduction for the general reader.?Roderic A. Camp, Latin American Ctr., Tulane Univ., New Orleans
Copyright 1996 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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A useful and lively introduction to a complete history -- Foreign Affairs

Product Details

  • Hardcover: 238 pages
  • Publisher: Brassey's Inc; 1St Edition edition (January 1, 1996)
  • Language: English
  • ISBN-10: 1574880314
  • ISBN-13: 978-1574880311
  • Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6 x 1.1 inches
  • Shipping Weight: 1.1 pounds
  • Average Customer Review: 2.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
  • Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #8,037,993 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2.0 out of 5 stars Good coverage; poor interpretation & inattention to details, August 16, 1998
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This review is from: Mexico: From Montezuma to Nafta, Chiapas, and Beyond (Hardcover)
The virtues first: this book manages to cover some one thousand years of complex history in a little over 200 pages. No mean task. Now, the problems: a wooden, occasionally opaque, prose style drives the narrative. Too often there is inattention to important details and, particularly in the closing chapters, the author reveals his ideological proclivities [right/center apparatchik and apologist for both Republican and PRI policies]. Beyond these interpretive biases, there is little sense that Suchlicki is moved by the drama or scope of Mexican history. Very little reliance on primary sources, very few quotations, very few telling anecdotes. In short, an uninspired and dreary read of an inspiring and dramatic subject. Too bad.
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