Mexico: A 500-Year History

From acclaimed and prizewinning historian Paul Gillingham, the rich and fascinating history of one of the world's most diverse, politically groundbreaking, and influential of countries

From its outset, “Mexico was more profoundly, globally hybrid than anywhere else in the prior history of the world,” writes Paul Gillingham at the beginning of this masterful work of scholarship and narration. Over the ensuing five centuries, Mexicans have prefigured and shaped the course of human lives across...