| Table of Contents |
| | Map: The Viceroyalty of New Spain 1786-1821 | |
| | Map: States of Modern Mexico | |
| | Introduction | 1 |
| Pt. 1 | Pre-Columbian Mexico (200-1519 CE) | 9 |
| 1. | Copan and Teotihuacan: Shared Culture Across a Great Distance (200-900 CE) | 13 |
| 2. | The Popol Vuh ("the Community Book"): The Mythic Origins of the Quiche Mayas (1554-1558) | 16 |
| 3. | Maya Royalty and Writing (c. 667 CE) | 22 |
| 4. | The Origin of the Nahuas and the Birth of the Fifth Sun (1596) | 25 |
| 5. | A Treasury of Mexica Power and Gender (c. 1541-1542) | 30 |
| 6. | Markets and Temples in the City of Tenochtitlan (1519) | 38 |
| 7. | The Mixtec Map of San Pedro Teozacoalco (1580) | 43 |
| 8. | The Urban Zoning of Maya Social Class in the Yucatan (1566) | 47 |
| 9. | The Nomadic Seris of the Northern Desert (1645) | 51 |
| Pt. 2 | The Spanish Conquest and Christian Conversion (1519-1610) | 57 |
| 10. | Hernan Cortes and Moteuccoma Meet, According to a Spanish Conqueror (1568) | 61 |
| 11. | Moteuccoma and Hernan Cortes Meet, According to a Nahua Codex (c. 1555) | 68 |
| 12. | The Nahua Interpreter Malintzin Translates for Hernan Cortes and Moteuccoma (1580) | 72 |
| 13. | Acazitli of Tlalmanalco: Nahua Conqueror on the Mesoamerican Frontier (1541) | 74 |
| 14. | Poetic Attempts to Justify the Conquest of Acoma, New Mexico (1610) | 80 |
| 15. | The Tlaxcaltecas Stage a Christian Pageant, "Like Heaven on Earth" (1538) | 85 |
| 16. | The Spiritual Conquest: The Trial of Don Carlos Chichimecatecotl of Texcoco (1539) | 88 |
| 17. | The Inquisition Seizes Don Carlos's Estate: The Oztoticpac Map (1540) | 95 |
| 18. | Father Fernandez Attempts to Convert the Seris of Sonora Single-handedly (1679) | 100 |
| Pt. 3 | The Consolidation of Colonial Government (1605-1692) | 105 |
| 19. | The Silver Mining City of Zacatecas (1605) | 109 |
| 20. | Chimalpahin: Indigenous Chronicler of His Time (1611-1613) | 113 |
| 21. | The Creation of Religious Conformity (the Early Eighteenth Century) | 120 |
| 22. | On Chocolate (1648) | 124 |
| 23. | The Treatment of African Slaves (the Seventeenth Century) | 128 |
| 24. | The Persistence of Indigenous Idolatry (1656) | 132 |
| 25. | Afro-Mexicans, Mestizos, and Catholicism (1672) | 137 |
| 26. | Sor Juana: Nun, Poet, and Advocate (1690) | 142 |
| 27. | The 1692 Mexico City Revolt (1692) | 149 |
| Pt. 4 | Late Colonial Society (1737-1816) | 155 |
| 28. | Indigenous Revolt in California (1737) | 157 |
| 29. | Maroon Slaves Negotiate with the Colonial State (1767) | 162 |
| 30. | Mexico's Paradoxical Enlightenment (1784) | 170 |
| 31. | Casta Paintings (1785) | 174 |
| 32. | Hidalgo's Uprising (1849) | 177 |
| 33. | Jose Maria Morelos's National Vision (1813) | 184 |
| 34. | A Satirical View of Colonial Society (1816) | 187 |
| Pt. 5 | The Early Republic (1824-1852) | 197 |
| 35. | Address to the New Nation (1824) | 199 |
| 36. | Caudillo Rule (1874) | 205 |
| 37. | A Woman's Life on the Northern Frontier (1877) | 211 |
| 38. | Female Education (1842, 1851) | 219 |
| 39. | Mexican Views of the Mexican-American War (1850) | 223 |
| 40. | The Mayas Make Their Caste War Demands (1850) | 228 |
| 41. | Mexico in Postwar Social Turmoil (1852) | 233 |
| Pt. 6 | Liberalism, Conservatism, and the Porfiriato (1856-1911) | 241 |
| 42. | The Reconfiguration of Property Rights and of Church-State Relations (1856) | 245 |
| 43. | Offer of the Crown to Maximilian by the Junta of Conservative Nobles (1863) | 249 |
| 44. | Porfirio Diaz's Political Vision (1871) | 251 |
| 45. | A Letter to Striking Workers (1892) | 256 |
| 46. | A Positivist Interpretation of Feminism (1909) | 260 |
| 47. | Precursors to Revolution (1904, 1906) | 264 |
| 48. | The Cananea Strike: Workers' Demands (1906) | 270 |
| 49. | Land and Society (1909) | 272 |
| 50. | Popular Images of Mexican Life (the Late Nineteenth and Early Twentieth Centuries) | 280 |
| 51. | Corridos from the Porfiriato (the Early 1900s) | 286 |
| Pt. 7 | The Mexican Revolution (1910-1940) | 293 |
| 52. | Francisco Madero's Challenge to Porfirio Diaz (1910) | 295 |
| 53. | Revolution in Morelos (1911) | 300 |
| 54. | Land, Labor, and the Church in the Mexican Constitution (1917) | 305 |
| 55. | Revolutionary Corridos (1917, 1919) | 312 |
| 56. | The Catholic Church Hierarchy Protests (1917, reprinted 1926) | 318 |
| 57. | Petitioning the President (the 1920s) | 320 |
| 58. | Plutarco Elias Calles: The Legal Challenges of the Postrevolutionary State (1928) | 324 |
| 59. | Feminism, Suffrage, and Revolution (1931) | 328 |
| 60. | Chronicles of Mexico City (1938) | 333 |
| 61. | The Responsibility of Government and Private Enterprise to the Mexican People (1937-1938) | 340 |
| Pt. 8 | The Institutionalization of the Revolution (1940-1965) | 351 |
| 62. | An Assessment of Mexico from the Right (1940) | 353 |
| 63. | We the Undersigned (1941, 1945) | 359 |
| 64. | Modernization and Society (1951) | 361 |
| 65. | Official History (1951) | 366 |
| 66. | Chicano Consciousness (1966) | 373 |
| 67. | Ruben Jaramillo and the Struggle for Campesino Rights in Postrevolutionary Morelos (1967) | 377 |
| Pt. 9 | Neoliberalism and Its Discontents (1968-2006) | 385 |
| 68. | Eyewitness and Newspaper Accounts of the Tlatelolco Massacre (1968) | 389 |
| 69. | Theft and Fraud (1970) | 399 |
| 70. | Serial Satire: The Comic Book (1974) | 403 |
| 71. | The 1985 Earthquake (1985, 1995) | 417 |
| 72. | The EZLN Views Mexico's Past and Future (1992) | 423 |
| 73. | Popular Responses to Neoliberalism (the Late 1990s) | 429 |
| 74. | Jesusa Rodriguez: Iconoclast (1995) | 432 |
| 75. | Maquila Workers Organize (2006) | 437 |
| 76. | Lies Within the Truth Commission (2006) | 442 |
| | Glossary | 445 |
| | Index | 447 |
