Mexico 200 years: the making of the nation

Contents

Foreword / Filipe Calderón Hinojosa -- Prologue / Miguel Ángel Fernández -- Mexico 200 years: a national synthesis / Miguel Soto -- The fracture of the Spanish monarchy with New Spain / Alfredo Ávila -- The defense of the sovereignty (1829-1867) / Miguel Soto -- Civic celebrations and national identity in Mexico: the invention of the liberal myth in the nineteenth century / Rosalina Ríos Zúñiga -- Printers, publishers, writers and artists in the construction of the nation / Laura Suárez de la Torre -- The restored republic and the porfiriato: politics, public policy and societal relations / Elisa Speckman Guerra -- The revolution: essential features and defining processes / Javier Garciadiego -- Agrarianism and agrarianisms / Ruth Arboleyda Castro -- The political dimension of urban planning in Mexico, 1900-1934/ Sergio Miranda Pacheco -- The invention of the past : heroes and the debate on history / Salvador Rueda -- Patriotic symbols / Enrique Florescano -- Collections represented in the exhibition / Mónica Martí.