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008			240530t19691969--------------000-u-eng-d
020			_a0-292-70071-7
082	0		_aLAS 972 SIE
100	1		_aSierra, Justo _d(1848-1912)
245	1	4	_aThe political evolution of the Mexican people _c/ Justo Sierra / trans. Charles Ramsdell / intro. Edmundo O'Gorman
260			_aAustin, TX _b: University of Texas Press _c, c1969
300			_a406 p. : _c24 cm
440		0	_aTexas Pan American series
520			_aAre 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
546			_aTranslated from the Spanish to English
651		4	_aMexico _x--History
651			_aMexico _x-Politics and government
700	1		_aRamsdell, Charles
700	1		_aO'Gorman, Edmundo _d, 1906-1995
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