The Oxford History of Mexico covers all aspects of the rich history of Mexico from precolonial times to the present. Exploring politics, religion, technology, modernization, ethnicity, colonialism, ecology, the arts, mass media, and popular culture, The Oxford History of Mexico provides a wealth of information for all readers interested in this remarkable country.

The great encounter. The Spain that encountered Mexico /Helen Nader -- The Mexico that Spain encountered / Susan Schroeder -- The collision of two worlds / Ross Hassig -- Crown, cross, and lance in New Spain, 1521-1810. An empire beyond compare / Mark A. Burkholder -- Faith and morals in colonial Mexico / Linda A. Curcio-Nagy -- Indian resistance to colonialism / Robert W. Patch -- Disease, ecology, and the environment / Elinor G.K. Melville -- Women in colonial Mexico / Asunción Lavrin -- Collapse, regeneration, and challenge, 1810-1910. The old colonialism ends, the new colonialism begins / Virginia Guedea -- Fashioning a new nation / Christon I. Archer -- War and peace with the United States / Josefina Zoraida Vázquez -- Betterment for whom? The reform period : 1855-1875 / Paul Vanderwood -- The culture of modernity / Robert M. Buffington and William E. French -- The Mexican revolution, 1910-1940. The Mexican revolution, 1910-1920 / John Mason Hart -- Rebuilding the nation / Thomas Benjamin -- Mexico and the outside world / Friedrich E. Schuler -- Mexican culture, 1920-1945 / Helen Delpar -- Mexico in the post-World War II era. The Mexican "miracle" and its collapse / John W. Sherman -- The time of the technocrats and deconstruction of the revolution / Roderic Ai Camp -- Mass media and popular culture in the post revolutionary era / Anne Rubenstein.