STUDY GUIDE EXAM 2
STUDY GUIDE EXAM 1

Current Events Project

For notes to lectures, click on the appropriate topics, organized by weeks. This page will also be used to post study guides for the three exams.

• Weeks 1-4. Jan 11-Feb 1: Pre-Spanish Mexico and the Spanish Conquest
  • Introduction - Where is Mexico?
  • The First Mexicans: Life in Pre-Spanish Mexico
  • Spain on the Eve of the Conquest
  • The Hummingbird and the Hawk: The Conquest of Mexico--Cross and Sword
    • The Birth of New Spain
    • The Spiritual Conquest of Mexico
• Weeks 4-6. Feb 3-15: Colonial Mexico and Independence
  • The Long Sixteenth Century: Silver and the Hapsburg Slumber
  • Daily Life in New Spain: Marriage, Murder, and Rebellion
  • Forging the Cosmic Race: Race and Ethnicity in Colonial Mexico
  • Revolt from Below, Reaction from Above: Hidalgo and Iturbide
• Weeks 6-9: Feb 17-29: 19th Century Mexico and the Porfiriato
  • Struggle for Identity: The Age of Santa Anna and the War of Northern Aggression
  • La Reforma: Benito Juarez and the Triumph of Liberalism
  • Bread or the Club: The Porfiriato (1876-1910)
    • Pofirian Philosophy - Mexican Positivism
    • Legacy and Enemies of the Porfirian Order
• Weeks 9-11: Mar 2-21: The Mexican Revolution(s).
  • One Revolution, Many Revolutions: Madero, Zapata, Villa, Carranza, Etc......
  • The New Order: The Sonoran Dynasty
  • Education in the Mexican Revolution: Vasconselos and the New Mexican
  • Literature of the Mexican Revolution: The Underdogs (Los de Abajo)
  • Art in the Mexican Revolution: Rivera, the Muralists, and Frida Kahlo
  • A Revolution in Song: The Mexican Corrido
• Weeks 11-13: Mar 23-Apr 11: The Twentieth Century (give of take a decade)
  • A New Revolution: Cardenas and the Re-Emergence of the Populists
  • The Frozen Revolution: Mexico from Mid-Century to the Present
  • A New Mexico: Salinas, Neo-Liberalism, and Democratic Reform (maybe)
  • Struggles With Urbanization: The Explosive Growth of Mexico City
• Weeks 13-16: Apr 13-May 2: Mexico at the Millennium
  • Mexico Divided: NAFTA and the Zapatista Revolt
  • Culture and Economics of the Border
  • Greater Mexico: Mexicans in the United States and the World of the Borderlands
  • Aspects of the Drug Trade in Mexico
  • Distant Neighbors: The Future of Mexican-U.S. Relations