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The political evolution of the Mexican people / Justo Sierra / trans. Charles Ramsdell / intro. Edmundo O'Gorman

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Sierra, Justo, (1848-1912)

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Material type: Text

TextSeries: Texas Pan American seriesPublication details: Austin, TX : University of Texas Press , c1969Description: 406 p. : 24 cmISBN:

0-292-70071-7

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DDC classification:

LAS 972 SIE

Summary: Are the Mexican people the children of Moctezuma or the children of Cortés? This question, long the central problem of Mexican historians, Justo Sierra answered by saying, "The Mexicans are the sons of the two peoples, of the two races … to this we owe our soul." Because Sierra recognized the dual parentage, he was able to view his country's history as an evolutionary process. Formed in both the indigenous past and the colonial past, the Mexican people, after three hundred years of slow and painful gestation, were finally born with the arrival of Independence. They came of age when the Reform, the Republic, and the nation achieved a single identity. This classical synthesis, written on the eve of the Mexican Revolution, gave direction to the generation that furnished the Revolution's intellectual leaders. Although the author was Secretary of Public Instruction in the dictatorial regime of Porfirio Díaz, he was the first historian to show sympathy for the plight of the masses, and his book ends

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Item type	Current library	Call number	Status	Notes	Date due	Barcode
Latin American Studies	Biblioteca Pública de San Miguel de Allende, A.C. Sala Ingles	LAS 972 SIE (Browse shelf(Opens below))	Available	Non fiction		022186

Are the Mexican people the children of Moctezuma or the children of Cortés? This question, long the central problem of Mexican historians, Justo Sierra answered by saying, "The Mexicans are the sons of the two peoples, of the two races … to this we owe our soul." Because Sierra recognized the dual parentage, he was able to view his country's history as an evolutionary process. Formed in both the indigenous past and the colonial past, the Mexican people, after three hundred years of slow and painful gestation, were finally born with the arrival of Independence. They came of age when the Reform, the Republic, and the nation achieved a single identity. This classical synthesis, written on the eve of the Mexican Revolution, gave direction to the generation that furnished the Revolution's intellectual leaders. Although the author was Secretary of Public Instruction in the dictatorial regime of Porfirio Díaz, he was the first historian to show sympathy for the plight of the masses, and his book ends

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