All the major chapters in the American story, from Indigenous beginnings to the present day. Chinese immigrants, escaped slaves, and Native Americans were all people U.S. forces tried to keep on one ...

An impressive and confident history of Mexico from the Aztecs to the present, Paul Gillingham’s Mexico: A 500-Year History is at once well-written and yet also somewhat unbalanced. The central theme, ...

Crawford and Gibbs credit a local InterContinental Presidente Mexico City concierge for leading them to one of their most ...

HISTORY, as Mexicans see it, is a largely calamitous chronology of conflict with troublesome foreigners. The first, Conquistador Hernán Cortés, landed near Veracruz A.D. 1519 with horses and 600 men, ...

“Poor Mexico. So far from God, so close to the United States.” The famous words attributed to eight-term Mexican President Porfirio Díaz have often been repeated to describe the country he ruled as a ...

In a new book, Paul Gillingham tells the story of a nation that has thrived because of its diversity, not in spite of it. A 17th-century depiction of the Spanish conquest of Tenochtitlán, the capital ...

Your institution does not have access to this book on JSTOR. Try searching on JSTOR for other items related to this book. Materials for the Demographic History of Mexico, 1500–1960 Chapter I Materials ...

Built in the 16th century by the Spanish on the ruins of Tenochtitlan, the old Aztec capital, Mexico City is now one of the world's largest and most densely populated cities. It has five Aztec temples ...