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Did Nafta Rewrite History? Recent Mexican Views Of The United States Past, Linda K. Salvucci Sep 1995

Did Nafta Rewrite History? Recent Mexican Views Of The United States Past, Linda K. Salvucci

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As a young graduate student residing in Mexico City in the mid-1970s, I often wondered what it would be like to teach United States history to university students there. The challenges appeared formidable. Not only did it seem that anti-Yankeeism was an integral component of Mexican intellectual identity in the waning years of Luis Echeverría's presidency, but the major bookstores carried few assignable (or affordable) titles. A handsomely produced, hardback Spanish version of Samuel E. Morison and Henry S. Commager's The Growth of the American Republic, first published in English in 1930, was the only textbook consistently in stock, …


El Caso Cubano: Exportación E Independencia, Pedro Fraile Balbín, Richard J. Salvucci, Linda K. Salvucci Jan 1993

El Caso Cubano: Exportación E Independencia, Pedro Fraile Balbín, Richard J. Salvucci, Linda K. Salvucci

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En su Memoria sobre qué colonias debían ser retenidas por España y cuales deberían abandonarse, el conde de Aranda Argüía que la isla de Cuba debería seguir siendo parte del lmperio. Aunque, como opina Arthur Whitaker, la Memoria de Aranda haya sido menos cierta de lo que se piensa, la realidad le dio la razón. Una de las notas mas destacables de la historia hispanoamericana del siglo XIX fue, en efecto, la ausencia de Cuba en los procesos independentistas de principios del siglo XIX. Un conjunto de circunstancias especiales mantuvieron una difícil y peculiar lealtad cubana a la metrópoli en …