Mexico
eBook - PDF

Mexico

  1. 304 pages
  2. English
  3. PDF
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - PDF

Mexico

About this book

Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment that has shaped the country since the Spanish conquest, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz offers a panoramic interpretation of Mexican history and culture from the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras through the twentieth century. Drawing on economics, psychology, literature, film, and history, he reveals how development processes have fostered glaring inequalities, uncovers the fundamental role of race and class in perpetuating poverty, and sheds new light on the contemporary Mexican reality. Throughout, Ruiz traces a legacy of dependency on outsiders, and considers the weighty role the United States has played, starting with an unjust war that cost Mexico half its territory. Based on Ruiz's decades of research and travel in Mexico, this penetrating work helps us better understand where the country has come, why it is where it is today, and where it might go in the future.

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Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. Preface
  4. 1. Ramblings on Mexican Underdevelopment
  5. 2. El Mexicano
  6. 3. The Legacy
  7. 4. Free Traders and Capitalists
  8. 5. Colonialism’s Thumb
  9. 6. Lost Opportunity
  10. 7. Internal Market
  11. 8. False Miracle
  12. 9. Death of a Dream
  13. 10. NAFTA
  14. Epilogue
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index