@article{433492,
      author = {MacLachlan, Colin M. and Beezley, William H.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/433492},
      title = {Mexico's crucial century, 1810-1910 : an introduction /},
      publisher = {University of Nebraska Press,},
      abstract = {"After Mexico gained its independence from Spain in 1821,  it began the work of forging its identity as an independent  nation, a process that would endure throughout the crucial  nineteenth century. A weakened Mexico faced American  territorial ambitions and economic pressure, and the  U.S.-Mexican War threatened the fledgling nation's  survival. In 1876 Porfirio Díaz became president of  Mexico, bringing political stability to the troubled  nation. Although Díaz initiated long-delayed economic  development and laid the foundation of modern Mexico, his  government was an oligarchy created at the expense of most  Mexicans.},
      recid = {433492},
      pages = {x, 280 p. :},
      address = {Lincoln :},
      year = {2010},
}