Reviews for Course of Mexican History

The average rating for Course of Mexican History based on 2 reviews is 3 stars.

Review # 1 was written on 2011-12-19 00:00:00 Max Vandament It's a good survey of the landmark events in Mexican history. The analysis of the history becomes laughable, however, in the modern Mexican era; particularly from 1980 on. The author walks on eggshells as he narrates the last thirty years of Mexico - these are the years of the destructive globalization experiment in Mexico and the rest of the world. The author gives Presidents Carlos Salinas de Gortari and Ernesto Zedillo, the architect of NAFTA and the intellectual author of the Acteal massacre respectively, free passes on criticism and judgement. For the sophisticated reader of Mexican history these editorials are offensive and disingenuous.

Review # 2 was written on 2008-06-01 00:00:00 Michael Harris This was definitely a textbook, I was hoping for more of a popular non-fiction type book, but it was definitely a textbook. Regardless, I read it cover to cover and really learned a lot. It was a high level overview of the entire span of Mexican history. It never got into super boring details since it was all high level. Definitely worth reading if you want the full overview of all of Mexican history and politics.