"Poor Mexico. So far from God, so close to the United States." The famous words attributed to eight-term Mexican President Porfirio Díaz have often been repeated to describe the country he ruled as a ...

Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Central themes -- Map : the Viceroyalty of New Spain 1786-1821 -- Map : states of modern Mexico -- Introduction -- pt. 1. Pre-Columbian Mexico (200-1519 CE) -- 1. Copán ...

The small French village of Barcelonette has, through a unique history of immigrations, produced some of Mexico's most ...

Catherine Dossin, an associate art history professor at Purdue, spoke about the Mexican mural movement at the Latino Cultural ...