Mexico : a history
Gillingham, Paul, 1973-2025
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This sweeping new history of Mexico spans 500 dramatic years of conquest, innovation and revolution. It begins in 1511 with the shipwreck of two Spanish sailors in Yucatán. Paul Gillingham's superb history chronicles how this convulsion led to a startling recombination of cultures. He shows how the industrial mining of Mexico's silver transformed the wealth and trade of the world, making it the centre of the first truly global economy. We then see how independence from Spain went on to bring calamitous wars with the United States and France. One of the world's great social revolutions then remade Mexico and ushered in a one-party state that, whatever its shortcomings, brought peace throughout many of the global horrors of the 20th century - before the country collapsed into violence in the drug wars of the 2000s.
Main title:
Mexico : a history / Paul Gillingham.
Author:
Gillingham, Paul, 1973-, author
Imprint:
UK : Allen Lane, 2025.
Collation:
x, 768 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (black and white, and colour), maps ; 24 cm
Notes:
Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:
9780241386040 (hbk. :)
Dewey class:
972
Language:
English
Subject:
BRN:
8979856
More Information:
| Location | Collection | Call number | Status/Desc |
|---|---|---|---|
| East Sheen Library | Adult non-fiction | 972History | Available |