Mexico's unscripted revolutions: political and social change since 1958

"Until recently, many considered the middle decades of the twentieth century in Mexico to be a time of relative peace and prosperity that ended abruptly on October 2, 1968, with the massacre of students in Mexico City. Now, as historians focus their attention on the "long" 1960s--from...

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1. Verfasser: Lewis, Stephen E. 1967- (VerfasserIn)
Format: Buch
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Hoboken, New Jersey Wiley-Blackwell [2024]
Schriftenreihe:Viewpoints
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Zusammenfassung:"Until recently, many considered the middle decades of the twentieth century in Mexico to be a time of relative peace and prosperity that ended abruptly on October 2, 1968, with the massacre of students in Mexico City. Now, as historians focus their attention on the "long" 1960s--from about 1958 through the early 1970s--a more nuanced and paradoxical picture emerges. Was this truly a time of economic "miracles?" If so, for whom? Was this a time of PRIista peace marred only by the bloody crackdown at Tlatelolco? Or was the crackdown less of an aberration than we had once thought?"
Beschreibung:xv, 218 Seiten Illustrationen 22 cm
ISBN:9781444337600