HIST 215-01, Mexico: From Pre-Columbian Peoples to the Present, Spring 1999

Abstract

This course will focus on Mexico as geographic territory and address, in a systematic fashion, the social, cultural, and economic history of the peoples who have inhabited Mexico. The course begins with an examination of pre-Columbian history and moves on to the European conquest of Mexico (c. 1519), colonial institutions and actors, nineteenth century intrigue, instability and foreign intervention. The course concludes with an examination of the twentieth century revolution (1911-), reform and identity.