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Book Review | The Journal of American History, 86.2 | The History Cooperative

Politica y Negocios: Ensayos sobre la Relación entre México y los Estados Unidos en el siglo XIX (Politics and business: Essays on the relation between Mexico and the United States in the nineteenth century). Ed. by Ana Rosa Suárez Argüello and Marcela Terrazas Basante. (Ciudad Universitaria: Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, 1997. 388 pp. Paper, isbn 968-36-4977-7.) In Spanish.

This collection of six essays is more limited in scope than its title suggests, as it covers only about three decades, from the mid-1820s to the mid-1850s. This period, however, was the most dramatic in Mexican-American relations and largely determined their direction for most of the next century. The authors fairly represent the modern generation of Mexican historians, who developed under the guidance of such older writers as Carlos Bosch García of the Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México (UNAM). 1

Although the historians represented here are unmistakably Mexican in background and training, they have chosen to write on mostly United States policies, so the book often resembles an American collection of scholarly articles more than the Mexican scholars might have liked. This is due partly to the fact that the United States government or its citizens were usually the driving force in the events treated but even more to the fact that the writers had to rely mostly on United States primary and secondary sources, for lack of fully developed Mexican archives and historical writings. . . .

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