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Explores the ideological and cultural milieu that shaped the Mexican people's understanding of technology. Intrinsically tied to the Porfiriato, the booming railroad network represented material progress in a country seeking its place in the modern world. Matthews discloses how the railroad's development represented the crowning achievement of the regime.

"An examination of sociocultural nation-building processes in Mexico between 1810 and 1910"

A tale of sin and redemption, Joseph U. Lenti's Redeeming the Revolution demonstrates how the killing of hundreds of student protestors in Mexico City's Tlatelolco district on October 2-3, 1968, sparked a crisis of legitimacy that moved Mexican political leaders to reestablish their revolutionary credentials with the working class, a sector only tangentially connected to the bloodbath.

"An examination of the histories of Mexico and Oaxaca and the creation of the identity of the modern political state through the Banda de Mausica del Estado de Oaxaca (Music Band of the State of Oaxaca; BME)"

Admiral Paul von Hintze arrived in Mexico in the spring of 1911, to serve as Germany's ambassador to a country in a state of revolution. Murder and Counterrevolution in Mexico presents Hintze's eyewitness accounts of these turbulent years.