HIST 129 - Mexico:Revol & Globalization

4 Credits

1 Units

This course allows students to explore the issues associated with political revolution and economics globalization in Latin America by focusing exclusively on the modern history of a single nation, Mexico. After a brief survey of Mexico’s indigenous and colonial experiences, this course primarily covers elements of Mexico’s evolution during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, beginning with a comparison of Mexico’s independence movement to the American Revolution. It continues through the circumstances surrounding the Mexican Revolution of 1910, the impact of NAFTA of 1994, and the political transition fostered by the 2000 elections. (M5)

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