Mexican History

p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"Nora E. Jaffary is associate professor of history at Concordia University, Montreal. Her books include False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico and Gender, Race, and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas. p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"Edward W. Osowski teaches in the history department at John Abbott College in Montreal. He specializes in Mexico's indigenous history, frequently using Nahuatl-language documents in his research. His monograph on eighteenth-century Nahua history is forthcoming with the University of Arizona Press. p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" p class="MsoNormal" style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"Susie S. Porter is associate professor of history and the gender studies program at the University of Utah. She is the author of Working Women in Mexico City, which won an Outstanding Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association in 2005. p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt" p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt"

• Part 1. Pre-Columbian Mexico (200-1519) * 1. Copn and Teotihuacan: Shared Culture Across a Great Distance (200-900 ce) * Image 1.1 Temple of Quetzalcoatl, Teotihuacan, detail showing talud-tablero and the rain god * Image 1.2 Painted vessel from the Margarita tomb, Copn, in the Teotihuacan style * 2. The Popol Vuh (the Community Book): The Mythic Origins of the Quich Maya (1554-1558) * 3. Mayan Royalty and Writing (c. 667 ce) * Image 3.1 Mayan king Hanab-Pakals sarcophagus lid * 4. The Origin of the Nahuas and the Birth of the Fifth Sun (1596) * 5. A Treasury of Mexica Power and Gender (c. 1541-1542) * Image 5.1 Tribute list from Tochtepec * Image 5.2 Midwife and newborn babies * Image 5.3 Marriage ceremony * 6. Markets and Temples in the City of Tenochtitlan (1519) * 7. The Mixtec Map of San Pedro Teozacoalco (1580) * Image 7.1 The Mixtec map of San Pedro Teozacoalco * 8. The Urban Zoning of Maya Social Class in the Yucatn (1566) * 9. The Nomadic Seris of the Northern Desert (1645) Part 2. The Spanish Conquest and Christian Conversion (1519-1610) * 10. Hernn Corts and Moteucoma Meet, According to a Spanish Conqueror (1568) * 11. Moteucoma and Hernn Corts Meet, According to a Nahua Codex (c. 1555) * 12. The Nahua Interpreter Malintzin Translates for Corts and Moteucoma (1580) * Image 12.1 Malintzin translates for Corts and Moteucoma * 13. Acazitli of Tlalmanalco: Nahua Conqueror on the Mesoamerican Frontier (1541) * 14. Poetic Attempts to Justify the Conquest of Acoma, New Mexico (1610) * 15. The Tlaxcaltecas Stage a Christian Pageant Like Heaven on Earth (1538) * 16. The Spiritual Conquest: The Trial of Don Carlos Chichimecatecotl of Texcoco (1539) * 17. The Inquisition Seizes Don Carloss Estate: The Oztoticpac Map (1540) * Image 17.1 The Oztoticpac lands map of 1540 * 18. Father Fernndez Attempts to Convert the Seris of Sonora Single-handedly (1679) Part 3. The Consolidation of Colonial Government (1605-1692) * 19. The Silver Mining City of Zacatecas (1605) * 20.

"What a thrilling voyage across five centuries of Mexican history! The editors have struck an ideal balance between fundamental texts and lesser-known sources that bring to life the everyday experiences, social structures, and political watersheds from the conquest to the present. Instructors, students, and anyone interested in Mexico will find it an indispensable collection of the voices that have forged the Mexican nation." -Christopher Boyer, University of Illinois at Chicago "An excellent tool to teach and discover Mexican history, this book reflects the breadth and depth of the editors' own research. The selection of texts is both rigorous and imaginative. It entails both a long duree view of Mexican history and a careful sensibility for the diversity of voices and textual sources that are necessary to understand that history. It will engage students and generate fruitful conversations in the classroom and beyond." -Pablo Piccato, ColumbiaUniversity