Mexican History: A Primary Source Reader

This is a comprehensive and innovative primary source reader in Mexican history from the pre-Columbian past to the neoliberal present. It thoughtfully conveys enduring themes of Mexican history while also incorporating recent advances in scholarly research on the frontier, urban life, popular culture, race and ethnicity, and gender.

Author: Nora E. Jaffary
Publisher: Routledge
Published: 09/01/2009
Pages: 480
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 1.25lbs
Size: 8.99h x 6.34w x 1.02d
ISBN: 9780813343341

Review Citation(s):
Reference and Research Bk News 11/01/2009 pg. 78

About the Author
Nora E. Jaffary is associate professor of history at Concordia University, Montreal. Her books include False Mystics: Deviant Orthodoxy in Colonial Mexico and Gender, Race, and Religion in the Colonization of the Americas.

Edward W. Osowski teaches in the history department at John Abbott College in Montreal. He specializes in Mexico's indigenous history, frequently using Nahuatl-language documents in his research. His monograph on eighteenth-century Nahua history is forthcoming with the University of Arizona Press. Susie S. Porter is associate professor of history and the gender studies program at the University of Utah. She is the author of Working Women in Mexico City, which won an Outstanding Book Award from the Latin American Studies Association in 2005.