Mexico by Enrique Krauze

Mexico by Enrique Krauze

This major interpretive history of the making of modern Mexico, from the Insurgent priests of the early nineteenth century to the presidency of Zedillo, provides an incisive portrait of Mexican culture, society, and politics and key elements of Mexico's past.aThe legacy of the Aztec emperors, CortÄs, the Spanish Crown, the mother Church, and the mixing of the Spanish and Indian population into a mestizo culture are key elements of Mexican history, as is the concentration of power in the person of the caudillo, or leader. History becomes biography, and the lives of the different caudillos are the historical tradition of Mexico. Santa Anna, Juçrez, and Porfirio DÆaz are three central figures up to 1910, when DÆaz, a monarch in republican clothing who had ruled the country since 1876, was engulfed by the Revolution and exiled to die in Paris. As always there was the threat and reality of the American presence from the north. The Revolution lasted ten years, and political unrest continued until 1940. There were nearly a million casualties during the Revolutionary era, and through the lives of the seven caudillos-Madero, Zapata, Villa, Carranza, Obregùn, Calles and Cçrdenas-the history of the period unfolds.aThe next part of the book deals with the evolution and development of the modern state from 1940 to 1970, beginning with an assessment of the Revolutionary period, then showing the formation of today's political system, and culminating in the tragic events of the 1968 student uprisings at Tlatelolco. As before, it is through the lives, personalities, and actions of various Presidents that history unfolds. The final section, on contemporary Mexico (1970-1996), is particularly valuable because there is little else available on this period and it addresses one of the major questions of Mexico's future: whether the political system can decentralize the concentration of power in the presidential office and end the cycles of history as biographies of power.

Enrique Krauze (Ciudad de México, 1947). Historiador, ensayista y editor mexicano. Es ingeniero industrial por la Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México y doctor en historia por el Colegio de México, donde ha sido investigador del Centro de Estudios Históricos. Ha sido profesor invitado en el St. Anthony's College de Oxford y en The Wilson Center de Washington. Durante más de veinte años colaboró con Octavio Paz en la revista Vuelta, de la que fue secretario de redacción y subdirector. En 1992 fundó la editorial Clío, de la que es director, mismo puesto que ocupa dentro de la revista cultural Letras Libres, que creó en 1999. En 1990 ingresó en la Academia Mexicana de la Historia. En 2003, el gobierno español lo condecoró con la Gran Cruz de la Orden de Alfonso X, el Sabio. En 2008, el rey de España le concedió la Gran Cruz de la Orden de Isabel la Católica. En 2010, obtuvo en México el Premio Nacional de Historia. Desde 1985 ha escrito en Dissent Magazine, The New Republic, The Washington Post, The New York Review of Books y The New York Times. Entre sus obras cabe destacar Caudillos culturales en la Revolución mexicana; Por una democracia sin adjetivos; Biografía del poder; Textos heréticos; Siglo de caudillos, biografía política de México (1810-1910) (Premio Comillas de biografía en 1993); La presidencia imperial; Daniel Cosío Villegas. Una biografía intelectual; Travesía liberal; El poder y el delirio y De héroes y mitos.

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ISBN 13	9780060163259
ISBN 10	0060163259
Title	Mexico
Author	Enrique Krauze
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Binding Type	Hardback
Publisher	HarperCollins Publishers Inc
Year published	1997-05-29
Number of pages	872
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