List of illustrations
List of maps
List of tables
Acknowledgments
Introduction
1. The first peoples: pre-Columbian Mexico
2. Diversity of Mesoamerican civilization
3. The age of conquest
4. The founding of an empire: sixteenth-century Mexico
5. The colony of New Spain
6. The Bourbon reforms and independence (1700-1821)
7. Years of chaos (1823-1876)
8. The Porfiriato Dictatorship (1876-1910)
9. The Revolution of 1910 (1910-1940)
10. The institutionalized revolution (1940-1988)
11. The march toward democracy (1988-2000)
12. A more democratic Mexico (2000-2009)
Appendixes: 1. Basic facts about Mexico; 2. Chronology; 3. Bibliography; 4. Suggested reading.