Tabla de Contenidos: “…Mexico in perspective: Nationalism and territory -- Living with the USA -- The border -- Drug trafficking -- Indigenous Mexico -- The pre-Columbian era: The olmecs -- Monte Alban and the zapotec cultures of Oaxaca -- The mayas -- Teotihuacan -- The north -- The time of troubles, 750-950 -- The toltecs -- The Post-Classic maya -- The zapotecs and mixtecs of the Post-Classic era -- Central Mexico -- The aztecs -- The european incursion, (1519-1620): The impact of the fall of Tenochtitlan -- The imposition of christianity -- Hispanic land ecquisition -- New Spain, 1620-1770: Spanish colonialism and american society: Spain and the empire: merchants, financiers, and markets -- Indian communities -- New Spain's Baroque culture-- The cult of the Virgin -- The exposed north and far north -- The political processes -- Destabilisation and fragmentation, 1770-1867: Climax and collapse of New Spain, 1770-1821 -- Failures and successes of a newly sovereign state, 1821-1867 -- Reconstruction: Liberal republic: constitutionalism or personal rule, 1867-1911? -- Revolutionary system: State power or democratisation, 1911-1940? …”
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Tabla de Contenidos: “…Anderson -- Sartre on evil / Peter Royle -- The revolutionary hero revisited / Pierre Verstraeten -- Nausea : plunging below the surface / Adrian van den Hoven.…”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…Stock -- Aural dialectics and revolutionary media in Cuba / Nicholas Balaisis -- Sobre las olas, waltz and films : classical music and Mexican identity / Armida de la Garza -- Black Orpheus / Hans Hess -- Chinese identity : poetics of cinema and music in hero / Germán Gil-Curiel -- 'The continental melody?' …”