Writing Mexican History

By Eric Van Young

Book Overview

This collection brings together a group of important and influential essays on Mexican history and historiography by Eric Van Young, a leading scholar in the field. The essays, several of which appear here in English for the first time, are primarily historiographical; that is, they address the ways in which separate historical literatures have developed over time. They cover a wide range of topics: the historiography of the colonial and nineteenth-century Mexican and Latin American countryside; historical writing in English on the history of colonial Mexico; British, American, and Mexican historical writing on the Mexican Independence movement; the methodology of regional and cultural history; and the relationship of cultural to economic history. Some of the essays have been and will continue to be controversial, while others-for example, those on studies of the Mexican hacienda since 1980, on the theory and method of regional history, and on the "new cultural history" of Mexico-are widely considered classics of the genre.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804768617
• ISBN13: 9780804768610
• Release Date: March 2012
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"