In the shadow of the giant : the Americanization of modern Mexico / Joseph Contreras
Material type: TextPublication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press , c2009.Description: xii, 276 p. ; 24 cmISBN:- 9780813544823
- Tan lejos de Dios . English
- LAS 303.4827 CON
- F1236.7 .C6613 2009
Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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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.
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.
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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