The History of Mexico

by Burton Kirkwood

Book Overview

This narrative history of Mexico through 1998 will help students and interested readers to understand the long, distinguished, and sometimes turbulent history of our neighbor to the south. Every American should be familiar with the history of Mexico, which in many ways parallels that of the United States. Surveying Mexico from the arrival of the first humans in the Western Hemisphere to current issues at the turn of the new century, this work dispels...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0313303517
• ISBN13: 9780313303517
• Release Date: March 2000
• Publisher: Greenwood
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.1" x 9.3"

Customer Reviews

Comprehensive

This book is very well-written and comprehensive in terms of the periods it covers. It is fair and unbiased and provides a good amount of detail without being overwhelming. Exactly what I was looking for.

Easy reading good layout

Good book for a quick orderly history of Mexico. Well thought out. Not a newspaper that is as up to date as today, but you don't expect that in a book written a couple of years ago. Wold buy it again.