Mexico and the United States: Ambivalent Vistas
ISBN: 9780820336114
Platform/Publisher: JSTOR / University of Georgia Press
Digital rights: Users: unlimited; Printing: chapter; Download: chapter
Subjects: United States -- Relations -- Mexico; Mexico -- Relations -- United States; Mexico -- History -- 1810–;

This substantial, accessible history covers much ground: Mexico's relationship with the United States and the world economy, the United States' influence on Mexico's development, and the competing civilizations of Protestant North America and Native American-Hispanic Catholic Mexico. Raat ( Mexico: From Independence to Revolution ) begins with the evolution of competing ethnocentrisms (``gringos'' and ``greasers''), then explains how the early history of Mexico's native peoples has shaped the present. (``Mexico today is a land of superimposed pasts.'') Tracing the differences in ecology, climate and colonial economies, he probes the sources of overdevelopment in the United States and of underdevelopment in Mexico. He explains Mexico's own role in its loss of Texas and the divisive political impact of this loss on both the U.S. and Mexico. Raat asserts that like Franklin Roosevelt, Mexican modernizer Cardenas, who nationalized the oil industry, wanted to preserve capitalism. The most interesting chapter explores the ambivalent, hybrid border culture of Mexamerica. Illustrations. (Dec.) (c) Copyright PWxyz, LLC. All rights reserved

W. Dirk Raat (Author)
W. DIRK RAAT is a professor emeritus of history at the State University of New York, Fredonia, and Adjunct Professor at Arizona State University. He has written eight books on Mexico, including Revoltosos: Mexico's Rebels in the U.S. , Mexico: From Independence to Revolution , and, with photographer George Janecek, Mexico's Sierra Tarahumara: A Photohistory of the People of the Edge .

Michael M. Brescia (Author)
MICHAEL M. BRESCIA is associate curator of Ethnohistory in the Arizona State Museum and associate professor of history at the University of Arizona. He is author of North America: An Introduction , and has published his research in a variety of scholarly journals.


hidden image for function call