Mexico Otherwise: Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers by Buchenau, Jürgen
Mexico Otherwise: Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers by Buchenau, Jürgen

Mexico Otherwise: Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers

This rich anthology provides a glimpse of modern Mexico through the eyes of foreign observers. Some of...
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Author: Jürgen Buchenau
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Mexico Otherwise: Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers by Buchenau, Jürgen

Mexico Otherwise: Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers

$104.86
Mexico Otherwise: Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers by Buchenau, Jürgen

Mexico Otherwise: Modern Mexico in the Eyes of Foreign Observers

$104.86
Author: Jürgen Buchenau
Format: Paperback
Language: English
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This rich anthology provides a glimpse of modern Mexico through the eyes of foreign observers. Some of these selections are by well-known authors (Alexander von Humboldt, John Reed, B. Traven, Evelyn Waugh). Some are unpublished pieces by little-known writers, and six are available here for the first time in English.

The writings fall into four periods: the transitions to independence and Mexico's first decades as a sovereign country (1800-1867), the era of Liberal modernization (1867-1910), the Mexican Revolution (1910-1940), and the post-World War II era. Four major topics show up repeatedly: ethnicity, gender, and race; cultural differences between Mexicans and foreigners; political stability and instability; and the economy and its impact on Mexicans. Although observers expressed a wide range of viewpoints on these issues, they agreed in finding a stunning degree of ethnic and regional diversity as well as what they saw as stark contrasts between urban and rural, rich and poor, modernity and tradition.

In addition to Anglo American authors, the anthology includes selections by German, French, Norwegian, and Spanish authors. Just over a third of the pieces are by women, who offer glimpses of private worlds closed to men, such as convent life, relations between women and their servants, and household affairs. Each selection contains biographical information on the author.



Author: Jürgen Buchenau
Publisher: University of New Mexico Press
Published: 07/01/2005
Pages: 304
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.98lbs
Size: 8.34h x 5.70w x 0.73d
ISBN: 9780826323132


Review Citation(s):
Multicultural Review 05/01/2006 pg. 82

About the Author
Buchenau, Jürgen: - Jürgen Buchenau is associate professor of history at the University of North Carolina, Charlotte. He is the author of In the Shadow of the Giant: The Making of Mexico's Central America Policy, 1876-1930 and coeditor of Governors in the Mexican Revolution, 1910-1952: Portraits in Conflict, Corruption, and Courage.
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