HIST 380

This course traces the emergence of modern Mexico since its 1910 revolution. It begins with attempts at economic modernization and political centralization in the late nineteenth century, considers the social upheaval of the Revolution and the consolidation of the post-revolutionary regime by 1940. A second section follows the rise and demise of the "Mexican Miracle" of growth and stability from 1940 to 1982 in the context of the Cold War. A final section considers Mexico's neo-liberal trade and investment reforms culminating in NAFTA, along with the contradictory structures of migration, drug flows, in-bond industry in northern Mexico and militarization of the US southern border.

Offered occasionally.

CO24 - SOCSCI (Social Sci and Historical), INTD - GDS (Global Development Studies GDS), INTD - LAS (Latin American Studies LAS), INTD - LS (Latina/o Studies Minor LS), INTD - SP-LTS (Span-Latina/o Study Major SPAN)