Companion to Mexican History and Culture

William H. Beezley is Professor of History at the University of Arizona, co-Director of the Oaxaca Cultural Institute, and Visiting Distinguished Professor at El Colegio de Mexico. He is the author or editor of 20 volumes on Mexico and Latin America, including Judas at the Jockey Club and Other Episodes of Porfirian Mexico, second edition (2004), Mexican National Identity: Memory, Insinuation, and Popular Culture (2008), and Mexicans in Revolution, 1910-1946 (2008).

• List of Figures xiNotes on Contributors xvIntroduction: The Dimensions of the Mexican Experience 1Part I: The Mexican Experience 111. Living the Vida Local: Contours of Everyday Life 13William E. French2. On the Street Corner where Stereotypes are Born: Mexico City, 1940–1968 34Ricardo Pérez Montfort3. Consumption and Material Culture from Pre-Contact through the Porfiriato 54Steven B. Bunker and Víctor M. Macías-González4. Consumption and Material Culture in the Twentieth Century 83Steven B. Bunker and Víctor M. Macías-González5. Geographic Regionalism and Natural Diversity 119Christopher R. Boyer6. The Cactus Metaphor 131David YetmanPart II: The Indigenous World Before the Europeans 1437. The Gods Depart: Riddles of the Rise, Fall, and Regeneration of Mesoamerica’s Indigenous Societies 145Susan Kellogg8. Painting History, Reading Painted Histories: Ethnoliteracy in Prehispanic Oaxaca and Colonial Central Mexico 163Elizabeth Bakewell and Byron Ellsworth HamannPart III: The Silver Heart of the Spanish Empire: Colonial Experiences 1939. The Gods Return: Conquest and Conquest Society (1502–1610) 195Matthew Restall and Robert Schwaller10. The Kingdom of New Spain in the Seventeenth Century 209Linda A. Curcio-Nagy11. The Enlightened Colony 230Susan M. DeedsPart IV: Two Centuries of Independence: The Republican Century 24912. Independence and the Generation of the Generals, 1810–1848 251Christon I. Archer13. The U.S. Intervention in Mexico, 1846–1848 262Linda Arnold14. Republicans and Monarchists, 1848–1867 273Erika Pani15. The Civilian and the General, 1867–1911 288Paul GarnerSpecial Themes16. The Penal Code of 1871: From Religious to Civil Control of Everyday Life 302Kathryn A. Sloan17. Conquering the Environment and Surviving Natural Disasters 316James A. Garza18. Indigenism in General and the Maya in Particular in the Nineteenth Century 328Terry Rugeley and Michele M. Stephens19. A Brief History of the Historia moderna de México 339Servando Ortoll and Pablo Piccato20. The House at Sadi Carnot 33: Amateur Photography and Domestic Architecture in Porfirian Culture 361Patricia Massé21. Disorder and Control: Crime, Justice and Punishment in Porfirian and Revolutionary Society 371Elisa Speckman Guerra22. Military and Nation in Mexico, 1821–1916 390Stephen NeufeldPart V: Two Centuries of Independence: The Revolutionary Century 40523. The Sonoran Dynasty and the Reconstruction of the Mexican State 407Jürgen Buchenau24. Creating a Revolutionary Culture: Vasconcelos, Indians, Anthropologists, and Calendar Girls 420William H. Beezley25. Counter Revolutionary Programs: Social Catholicism and the Cristeros 439Daniel Newcomer26. The Apogee of Revolution, 1934–1946 453Susie Porter27. The Revolution’s Second Generation: The Miracle, 1946–1982 and Collapse of the PRI, 1982–2000 468Roderic Ai. CampSpecial Themes28. Photographing Indian Peoples: Ethnography as Kaleidoscope 480Deborah Dorotinsky29. Challenges, Political Opposition, Economic Disaster, Natural Disaster and Democratization, 1968 to 2000 493Ariel Rodríguez Kuri30. Fighting Bacteria, the Bible, and the Bottle: Projects to Create New Men, Women, and Children, 1910–1940 505Gretchen Pierce31. Environment and Environmentalism 518Emily Wakild32. Peculiarities of Mexican Diplomacy 538Monica Rankin and Dina Berger33. Science and Public Health in the Century of Revolution 561Gabriela Soto Laveaga and Claudia Agostoni34. A Century of Childhood: Growing up in Twentieth-Century Mexico 575Elena Jackson Albarrán35. ¡De Pie y en Lucha! Indigenous Mobilizations After 1940 589María L. Olin Muñoz36. Mexican Immigration to the United States 604Timothy J. Henderson37. Sex, Death and Structuralism: Alternative Views of the Twentieth Century 616Paul Gillingham38. For Further Research: Space, Sense, and Sensibility 633Ageeth SluisIndex 654

"This book is definitely a valuable contribution to the understanding of Mexican politics during the different eras and it is the first volume to incorporate a discussion of popular music in political analysis." (Reference Reviews, 2012)"Summing Up: Recommend. All levels/libraries." (Choice, 1 January 2012)