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Connecting readers with great books since 1972! Used books may not include

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Size: 8vo-over 7? -9? " tall; Trade Paperback in Fine Condition, in original

Size: 8vo-over 7? -9? " tall; Trade Paperback in Fine Condition, in original wraps of black with brown figure, white titles. Second reprint in English. In addition to Daniel Cosio Villegas, other authors, who are also distinguished Mexican historians, are Ignacio Bernal, Alejandra Moreno Toscano, Luis Gonzalez, Eduardo Blanquel, and Lorenzo Meyer. The translation is by Marjory Mattingly. The forward by Robert A. Potash introduces the book to the English-speaking reader. An examination of the history of Mexico which begins with early settlements thousands of years ago, refined indigenous civilizations a few centuries back--the Pre-Columbian Era, The Olemec World, Teotihuacan and the Urban Society, the Toltec successors--the Spanish Conquest, the merging of European and Indian cultures over a long colonial period, the Revolution for Independence, Santa Anna, Reform, independence and national formation and finally entry into the currents of world trade and capitalist development in the late 19th century, and modernization, economic and social change to the present. 159 pages. 5.5 x 8.25 inches. 2000, El Colegio de Mexico, Mexico.