Mexico's Hope: An Encounter with Politics and History

by James D. Cockcroft

Book Overview

Mexico's Hope tells the dramatic story of the making of modern Mexico, treating all the major developments of the past century of Mexican history.
Unusually attentive to the contributions of women, Indians, workers, and peasants, Mexico's Hope is informed by the conviction that the country's most promising prospects today lie in the quest of its poorest people for social justice and democracy-from the recent Zapatista uprisings...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0853459258
• ISBN13: 9780853459255
• Release Date: January 1998
• Publisher: Monthly Review Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 1.50 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.1" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Current Mexican affairs

Anyone interested in Mexico's modern politics and current events must read this book. I thought the first chapters, those dealing with Mexico's history previous to the 1910 revolution, were a bit useless to the overall effect. However, most of the book deals with the country's cultural and political aspects in such a way as to make it a necessary companion to the study of present day Mexico. There are many revealing ideas, and above all, I think, the author is able to transmit to the reader more than facts or oppinions about Mexico's government: he is able to clarify and express those things one always notices about Mexico without one ever beeing able to conceptualize into words. Althoug the author does not inted to be prophetic, I think that he was knowledgeable enough to foresee many of the developments that have just recently taken place after this book's publishing, so that one can clearly see the underlying motives and reasons of those changes.