The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mexican History and Culture
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mexican History and Culture
The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mexican History and Culture is a thematic print reference collection that brings fresh interpretations to standard political and economic analyses and provides new insights through cultural approaches to Mexico’s history. Drawing on articles from across the sections of the online ORE, the encyclopedia features the latest scholarship written by leading scholars from Mexico and the English-speaking world. The Oxford Encyclopedia of Mexican History and Culture also considers topics of increasing interest, including gender and environmental studies, and offers useful guides to digital archives and resources for the study of Mexican history. All of the articles appear online as part of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History.
Volume Editor
William H. Beezley, University of Arizona
Topics
Four Iconic Images of Mexico
The Great Encounter, 1492–1521
Spanish Colonial Rule, 1521–1810
Independence and the Early Republic, 1808–1821
Revolution and Revolutionary Society
Mid-20th Century Economic Development, Cold War, and Middle-Class Expectations
The Contemporary Era
Digital Resources
Articles
#YoSoy132, Social Media, and Political Organization (Javier Contreras Alcántara)
Chin Chun Chan: The Zarzuela as an Ethnic and Technological Farce (Jacqueline Avila)
Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua (Elizabeth A. Henson)
Architecture in Mexico City, 1940–1980 (Kathryn E. O’Rourke)
Aztec Apocalypse, 1519–1521 (Ross Hassig)
Benito Juárez and Liberalism (Guy Thomson)
Carlos Salinas de Gortari and His Legacy (Stephen D. Morris)
Caste Wars in Yucatán (Michele McArdle Stephens)
Catholicism in Mexico, 1910 to the Present (Matthew Butler)
Chiapas and the Zapatista National Liberation Army (Marco Estrada-Saavedra)
Civilian Aviation in Mexico (Peter Soland)
Convent and Family Property in New Spain (Rosalva Loreto López)
Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas and the Democratization of Mexican Politics (Kathleen Bruhn)
Democratizing Mexican Politics, 1982–2012 (Roderic Ai Camp)
Digital Resources: Getty Research Institute Digital Exhibitions and Portals for Mexico (Jonathan Saxon)
Digital Resources: Hispanic American Periodicals Index (HAPI) (Orchid Mazurkiewicz)
Digital Resources: LLILAS Benson Latin American Studies and Collections, University of Texas at Austin (Kent Norsworthy)
Digital Resources: Power of Attorney, A Digital Spatial History of Indigenous Legal Culture in Colonial Oaxaca, Mexico (Yanna Yannakakis)
Digital Resources: The Bracero History Archive (Sharon Leon)
Digital Resources: The Documented Border (Celeste González de Bustamante, Verónica Reyes-Escudero)
Digital Resources: The José Guadalupe Posada Collection at the Ibero-American Institute (Ricarda Musser)
Digital Resources: The Wheelan Collection of Photographs of the Mexican Revolution (Anton duPlessis)
Digital Resources: Using Facebook to Foster International Conversations about Mexican History (Jason Dormady)
Disease, Ecology, and the Environment in Colonial Mexico (Bradley Skopyk, Elinor G. K. Melville)
Disney Health Films in Mexico (María Rosa Gudiño Cejudo)
Drought and the Origins of the Mexican Revolution (Mikael D. Wolfe)
Foreign Travelers in Mexico (James A. Garza)
Gabriel Vargas and La familia Burrón (Maira Mayola Benítez Carrillo)
General Victoriano Huerta and the Mexican Revolution (Friedrich E. Schuler)
Guerrilla Movements and Armed Struggle in Cold War Mexico (Alexander Aviña)
History of the Torre Latinoamericana (Sarah Beckhart)
Human Rights and the Mexican Student Movement of 1968 (Elaine Carey)
Humboldt in Mexico, 1803–1804 (Myron Echenberg)
Indigenous Mobilizations and the Mexican Government during the 20th Century (María L. O. Muñoz)
Instituto Nacional de Bellas Artes y Literatura (Liliana Toledo Guzmán)
Jean Charlot and the Mexican Mural Renaissance (John Charlot)
José Guadalupe Posada and Visual Culture in Porfirian Mexico (Robert M. Buffington, Jesus Osciel Salazar)
Juliet Barrett Rublee and Flame of Mexico (Elissa Rashkin, Isabel Arredondo)
La Reina de la Raza: The Making of the India Bonita (Natasha S. Varner)
Laura Méndez de Cuenca: Force for Mexican Modernity (Mílada Bazant)
Lázaro Cárdenas and Cardenismo (Stephanie Mitchell)
Lombardo Toledano's Struggles in the World of Labor (Daniela Spenser)
López Obrador in Democratic Mexico (Alejandro García Magos)
Lucas Alamán and 19th-Century Monarchism in Mexico (Miguel Soto)
Lucha Libre (Stephen Allen)
Manuel Gómez Morin and the Creation of the National Action Party (PAN) (Javier Garciadiego)
Men and Modernity in Porfirian Mexico (Robert M. Buffington)
Mexican Culture, 1920–1945 (Helen Delpar, Stephanie J. Smith)
Mexican Foreign Relations, 1910-1946 (Amelia M. Kiddle)
Mexican Politics, Economy, and Society, 1946–1982 (Ryan Alexander)
Mexican Telenovelas (O. Hugo Benavides)
Mexican Women Writers, 1960 to the Present (Sarah Anderson)
Mexico and the Outside World (Friedrich E. Schuler)
Mexico and the Pacific (Edward R. Slack)
Mexico in Spain’s Oceanic Empire, 1519–1821 (Christoph Rosenmüller)
Mexico in World Expositions and Fairs (Susan Douglas)
Mexico's Centennial Celebration of Independence in 1910 (Michael J. Gonzales)
Mexico's First Decades of Independence (Christon I. Archer, Stephen B. Neufeld)
Ministry of Communications and Public Works (Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas) (Sonia Robles)
Mountain Communities and Their Changing Landscapes in 19th-Century Mexico (Alejandro Tortolero Villaseñor)
Music and Folklore Research in the Departamento de Bellas Artes, 1926–1946 (Jessica Gottfried)
Music in Mexico City, 1880–1960 (Ricardo Pérez Montfort)
Nature Conservation and Protection in Mexico (Emily Wakild)
Oil and Environment in Mexico (Myrna Santiago)
Ordinary Opinions of Everyday Mexicans: Polling from the 1940s–2012 (Roderic Ai Camp)
Oscar Lewis, Urban Poverty, and The Children of Sánchez (Joshua K. Salyers)
Parícutin: Volcano in a Cornfield (Claire Perrott)
Pedro Infante and the Mexican Imagination (Sal Acosta)
Photography and Cinema in 20th-Century Mexico (John Mraz)
Political Prefects: The Regional Political Bosses of Mexico (Romana Gloria Falcón Vega)
Porfirian Politics in Mexico, 1876–1911 (Paul Garner)
Porfirian Social Practices and Etiquette (Diego Pulido Esteva)
Public Health in Mexico, 1870–1943 (Claudia Agostoni)
Pulque: A Pre-Columbian Alcoholic Beverage of Mexico (David Yetman)
Railroads and the Mexican Imagination during the Porfiriato and Revolution (Michael Matthews)
Rediscovering the Aztecs and Mayas: Field Exploration, Archaeological Exhibits, and National Museums (Kevin M. Gosner)
Revolutionary Influences on Genre Cinema in Mexico (Jennifer L. Jenkins)
Revolutionary Land Reform and Its End in Mexico (Joseph U. Lenti)
Ricardo Flores Magón and the Ongoing Revolution (Kevan Antonio Aguilar)
Santa Anna and His Legacy (Will Fowler)
Smallpox Eradication in Mexico (Claudia Agostoni)
Social Order and Mobility in 16th- and 17th-Century Central Mexico (Tatiana Seijas)
State-Building and Roads in Postrevolutionary Chiapas and at the Turn of the 21st Century (Jonathan Otto)
Taste, Smell, and Flavor in Mexico (Jeffrey M. Pilcher)
Technology in 19th-Century Mexico (Edward Beatty)
The Autonomous Department of Press and Publicity (Departamento Autónomo de Prensa y Publicidad) (Ana Laura de la Torre)
The Bracero Program, 1942–1964 (Juan R. García)
The Colonial Economy of New Spain (Jeremy Baskes)
The Colonial Mosaic of Indigenous New Spain, 1519–1821 (Susan Kellogg)
The Conjunction of the Lettered City and the Lettered Countryside in 19th-Century Mexico (William E. French)
The Culture of a Multi-Ethnic Colony (Sonya Lipsett-Rivera)
The Drug Trade in Mexico (Aileen Teague)
The Economy during the Mexican Revolution (Mark Wasserman)
The Extraordinary Career of Juana C. Romero, Cacica of Tehuantepec (Francie Chassen-López)
The French Intervention in Mexico and the Empire of Maximilian and Carlota (Luz María Hernández-Sáenz)
The History and Visual Culture of Mexico City’s Xochimilco Potable Water System during the Porfiriato (Jeffrey M. Banister, Stacie G. Widdifield)
The Independence of New Spain and the Establishment of the Mexican Republic, 1808–1824 (Jaime E. Rodríguez O.)
The Internal Provinces of the Northern Spanish Empire (Cecilia Sheridan-Prieto)
The Life, Myth, and Commemoration of Benito Juárez (Thomas Benjamin)
The Mexican Son, Past and Present (Raquel G. Paraíso)
The Mexican Muralists and Frida Kahlo (Leonard Folgarait)
The Mexican Revolution, 1910–1946 (Jürgen Buchenau)
The Mexican-American War (Irving W. Levinson)
The Mexico City Metro and Its Riders (Amanda M. López)
The Mexico that Spain Encountered (Susan Schroeder)
The Motherland and the Welfare State in Mexico: Government Symbols, Programs, and Visions, 1943–1970 (Alicia Azuela de la Cueva)
The Public Sphere and Liberalism in Mexico from the Mid-19th Century to the 1930s (Pablo A. Piccato)
The Public Sphere in Mexico since the Mid-20th Century (Vanessa Freije)
The Reforma Period in Mexico (Paul Vanderwood, Robert Weis)
The Secretary of War’s Historical Commission: Military Historians and the Cristeros (Julia Preciado)
The Three Faces of the Mexican Family, 1872 to the Present (Elena Jackson Albarrán)
The Virgin of Guadalupe as an Iconic Image in Mexican Culture (Charlene Villaseñor Black)
The Women of Guadalajara in Mexico's History (María Teresa Fernández Aceves)
The Zoque Carnivals of Northwestern Chiapas, Mexico (Gillian E. Newell)
Travel and Transport in Mexico (J. Brian Freeman, Guillermo Guajardo Soto)
Urbanization and Environment in Mexico since 1521 (Matthew Vitz)
War and Peace between Mexico and the United States in the 18th and 19th Centuries (Josefina Zoraida Vázquez)
Water and Environmental Change in the US-Mexico Borderlands (Sterling Evans)
Women and Commercial Sex in the Viceroyalty of New Spain (Nicole von Germeten)
Women in Mexican Politics since 1953 (Sonia Hernández)
Working Women in the Mexican Revolution (Susie S. Porter)
