HIS 2074 History of Mexico
This course will provide students with a concentrated introduction to the social, political, and economic history of Mexico. We will explore how regional identities, gender relations, and political and economic struggles informed Mexico's path to independence, the struggles between liberalism and conservatism in the formation of the state in the nineteenth century, peasant struggles over land and sovereignty, modernization; authoritarian rule and struggles for democratization; the Mexican Revolution; relations with the United States; women's movements, populism; the post-revolutionary state; the rise and decline of the Revolutionary Institutional Party (PRI), and recent reformist and revolutionary challenges to the state and neo liberal policies.