Concise Encyclopedia of Mexico

'This concise edition of the groundbreaking Encyclopedia of Mexico - successfully retains the strengths of the original work in a convenient format aimed at a more general audience.' CHOICE

• A: A; African Mexicans; Agustín I (Emperor of Mexico); Alamán, Lucas 1792–1853; Architecture; Architecture: Colonial; Architecture: Nineteenth Century; Architecture: Twentieth Century; Ayutla, Revolution of; Aztecs; Azuela, Mariano 1873–1952; B: B; Borders; Bullfighting; C: C; Calderón de la Barca, Fanny 1804–82; Calles, Plutarco Elías 1877–1945; Campobello, Nellie 1900–; Cantinflas; Cárdenas, Cuauhtémoc 1934–; Cárdenas, Lázaro 1895–1970; Carranza, Venustiano 1859–1920; Castellanos, Rosario 1925–1974; Caste War of Yucatán; Catholic Church; Catholic Church: Colonial Structure, Divisions, and Hierarchy; Catholic Church: Hapsburg New Spain; Catholic Church: Bourbon New Spain; Catholic Church: 1821–1910; Catholic Church: 1910–96; Cedillo, Saturnino 1890–1939; Chiapas Zapatista Rebellion; Conquest; Conquest: Spanish Background; Conquest: Central Mexico; Conquest: Yucatán; Conquest: Northern Mexico; Conquest: Demographic Impact; Conquest: Ecological Impact; Conquistadors; Conservatism; Constitution of 1917; Corridos; Cortés, Fernando (Hernán) 1484 or 1485–1547; Cristero Rebellion; Cruz, Sor Juana Inés de la 1651–95; Cuisine; D: D; Day of the Dead; De la Huerta, Adolfo 1881–1955; De Las Casas, Bartolomé; Díaz, Porfirio 1830–1915; Díaz, Porfirio: Biography; Díaz, Porfirio: Interpretive Discussion; Díaz del Castillo, Bernal c.1495–1584; Doña Marina; Drug Trade; E: E; Earthquake of 1985; Ecology; Ejército Zapatista de Liberación Nacional; Elías Calles, Plutarco; Ezln; F: F; Family and Kinship; Family and Kinship: Hapsburg Colonial Period; Family and Kinship: Bourbon Colonial Period and Nineteenth Century; Family and Kinship: Twentieth Century; Fernández, Manuel Félix; Foreign Policy; Foreign Policy: 1821–76; Foreign Policy: 1876–1910; Foreign Policy: 1910–46; Foreign Policy: 1946–96; French Intervention; Fuentes, Carlos 1928–; G: G; Gálvez, José de 1720–87; Gatt; Gender; Gender: Overview; Gender: Gender and Mexican Spanish; General Agreement on Tariffs and Trade (GATT); Great Depression; Guadalupanismo; Guadalupe Hidalgo, Treaty of; Guerrero, Vicente 1782–1831; H: H; Hapsburg, Ferdinand Maximilian von; Hidalgo Revolt; Hidalgo y Costilla, Miguel 1753–1811; Huerta, Victoriano 1854–1916; Human Rights; I: I; Independence Wars; Industrial Labor; Industrial Labor: 1876–1910; Industrial Labor: 1910–40; Industrial Labor: 1940–96; Industry and Industrialization; Inquisition; Iturbide, Agustín de 1783–1824; J: J; Juárez, Benito 1806–72; K: K; Kahlo, Frida 1907–54; Kinship; L: L; Las Casas, Bartolomé de 1484–1566; Lerdo de Tejada, Sebastián 1827–89; Liberalism; Limantour, José Yves 1854–1935; Literature and National Identity, 1910–96; Lombardo Toledano, Vicente 1894–1968; López de Santa Anna, Antonio; M: M; Madero, Francisco I. 1873–1913; Maize; La Malinche and Malinchismo; Maquiladoras; Marina, Doña; Massacre of Tlatelolco; Maximilian (Ferdinand Maximilian von Hapsburg) 1832–67; Mesoamerica; Mesoamerica: Introduction; Mesoamerica: Maya; Mesoamerica: Mexica; Mesoamerica: Monte Albán; Mesoamerica: Olmec; Mesoamerica: Teotihuacan; Mesoamerica: Toltec; Mesoamerica: Veracruz, Classic and Postclassic; Mesoamerica: Agriculture and Ecology; Mesoamerica: Calendrics; Mesoamerica: Population; Mesoamerica: Religion; Mesoamerica: Warfare; Mesoamerica: Writing; Mestizaje; Mexica; Mexican American Communities; Mexican-American War; Mexican Revolution; Mexican Revolution: Causes; Mexican Revolution: October 1910–February 1913; Mexican Revolution: February 1913–October 1915; Mexican Revolution: October 1915–May 1917; Mexican Revolution: May 1917–December 1920; Mexican Spanish; Migration to the United States; Migration to the United States: 1876–1940; Migration to the United States: 1940–96; Military; Military: Bourbon New Spain; Military: 1821–1914; Military: 1914–96; Mining: Colonial; Missions; Modernism; Mora, José María Luís 1794–1850; Morelos, José María 1765–1815; Moreno Reyes, Mario (Cantinflas) 1913–93; Morones, Luis Napoleón 1890–1964; Motion Pictures; Motion Pictures: 1896–1930; Motion Pictures: 1930–60; Motion Pictures: 1960–96; Music; Music: Mesoamerica through Seventeenth Century; Music: Eighteenth Century; Music: Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries; N: N; Nafta; Nahua Rulers, Pre-Hispanic; Nationalism; North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA); O: O; Obregón, Álvaro 1880–1928; Orozco, José Clemente 1883–1949; Orozco Vázquez, Pascual, Jr. 1882–1915; P: P; Partido de Acción Nacional (PAN); Partido de la Revolución Democrática (PRD); Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI); Paz, Octavio 1914–; Peso Crisis of 1994; Petroleum; Petroleum: Pre-1938; Petroleum: 1938–96; Photography; Politics and Government; Politics and Government: Hapsburg New Spain; Politics and Government: Bourbon New Spain; Politics and Government: 1821–76; Politics and Government: 1876–1910; Politics and Government: 1910–46; Politics and Government: 1946–96; Poniatowska, Elena 1933–; Popular Catholicism; Popular Liberalism; Prd; Pri; Prints; Protestantism; Q: Q; Quetzalcoatl; R: R; Radio; Railroads; Reform Laws; Reform Wars; Revolution, Mexican; Revolution of Ayutla; Reyes, Bernardo 1850–1913; Rivera, Diego 1886–1957; Ruiz García, Samuel 1924–; Rulfo, Juan 1918–86; Rural Economy and Society; Rural Economy and Society: Colonial; Rural Economy and Society: 1821–1910; Resistance and Rebellion; Rural Economy and Society: 1910–40; Rural Economy and Society: 1940–96, Land-Labor Regimes; Rural Economy and Society: 1940–96, Resistance and Rebellion; S: S; Sahagún, Bernardino de c. 1499–1590; Salinas de Gortari, Carlos 1948–; Santa Anna, Antonio López de 1794–1876; Science; Sexuality; Siqueiros, David Alfaro 1896–1974; Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz; Spanish Language in Mexico; Sports; Student Movement of 1968; T: T; Telenovelas; Television; Teotihuacan; Terrazas Fuentes, Luis 1829–1923; Texan Secession; Three Years War; Tlatelolco, Massacre of; Toltec; Tourism; Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo; Triple Alliance; U: U; Urbanism and Urbanization; U.S.-Mexican Border; U.S.-Mexican Border: 1821–1910; U.S.-Mexican Border: 1910–96; U.S.-Mexican Border: Border Urbanism; U.S.-Mexican War; V: V; Vasconcelos, José 1882–1959; Velázquez Sánchez, Fidel 1900–97; Veracruz, Classic and Postclassic Mesoamerican; Victoria, Guadalupe 1785–1843; Villa, Francisco (Pancho) 1878–1923; Virgin of Guadalupe and Guadalupanismo; Visual Arts; Visual Arts: Mesoamerica; Visual Arts: Sixteenth Century; Visual Arts: Seventeenth Century; Visual Arts: Eighteenth- and Nineteenth-Century Academic Art; Visual Arts: 1910–37, The Revolutionary Tradition; Visual Arts: 1920–45, Art outside the Revolutionary Tradition; Visual Arts: 1945–96; W: W; Wars of Independence; Wars of Reform (Three Years War); Women's Status and Occupation; Women's Status and Occupation: Mesoamerica; Women's Status and Occupation: Indian Women in New Spain; Women's Status and Occupation: Spanish Women in New Spain; Women's Status and Occupation: 1821–1910; Women's Status and Occupation: 1910–96; World Trade Organization; Z: Z; Zapata, Emiliano 1879–1919; Zapatista Rebellion in Chiapas; Zapotecs, Mesoamerican; Zedillo Ponce de León, Ernesto 1951–