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In the shadow of the giant : the Americanization of modern Mexico / Joseph Contreras

By:

Contreras, Joseph, , 1957-

Material type: Text

TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press , c2009.Description: xii, 276 p. ; 24 cmISBN:

9780813544823

Uniform titles:

Tan lejos de Dios . English

Subject(s):

DDC classification:

LAS 303.4827 CON

LOC classification:

F1236.7 .C6613 2009

Contents:

A Chicano comes to the big enchilada: Mexico City, 1984-1987 -- Not such distant neighbors: Mexico in the era of Vicente Fox -- Looking northward -- NAFTA: the double-edged sword of free trade -- The new breed of Mexican businessmen -- The modern Mexican news media -- The Mexican dream -- The gringo Riviera -- The umbilical cord of remittances -- The southernmost city in Texas: Monterrey, Nuevo Leon -- Made-in-the-U.S.A. diseases -- The Evangelical challenge.

Summary: In this first book to view modern Mexico in the era of NAFTA and globalization, In the Shadow of the Giant offers insight into the land on our southern border. What Contreras finds is a nation more like the U.S. than even Mexican themselves could have imagined.

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Holdings
Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C.	LAS 303.4827 CON (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available		064231

Includes bibliographical references (p. 261-263) and index.

In this first book to view modern Mexico in the era of NAFTA and globalization, In the Shadow of the Giant offers insight into the land on our southern border. What Contreras finds is a nation more like the U.S. than even Mexican themselves could have imagined.

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