Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Acknowledgments ix
4. Introduction 1
5. Part I. The Historiography of Rural Mexico and Latin America
6. 1. Waves and Ripples: Studies of the Mexican Hacienda since 1980 21
7. 2. Rural Latin America: The Colonial Period and Nineteenth Century 53
8. Part II. The Historiography of Colonial Mexico and the Era of Independence
9. 3. Two Decades of Anglophone Writing on Colonial Mexico: Continuity and Change since 1980 83
10. 4. No Human Power to Impede the Impenetrable Order of Providence: The Historiography of Mexican Independence 127
11. Part III. Theory and Methodology
12. 5. Doing Regional History: A Theoretical Discussion and Some Mexican Cases 167
13. 6. The Cuautla Lazarus: Reading Texts on Popular Collective Action 199
14. Part IV. Economic History and Cultural History
15. 7. The New Cultural History Comes to Old Mexico 223
16. Bibliography 265
17. Index 315