Mar 8, 2013
Latin American History8 January 2013Ben Smith (Warwick)La Dictablanda: Soft Authoritarianism in Mexico, 1940-1968 In 1929 the National Revolutionary Party (PNR) was formed and later renamed Institutional Revolutionary Party (PRI). Between 1940 and 1970 this...
Jan 3, 2013
Latin American History seminar16 October 2012Rebecca Earle (Warwick)Embodying Race in Colonial Spanish America Casta paintings have become quite popular in the art and antiques world. Largely created in eighteenth century Mexico by unknown artists and purposed by...
Aug 1, 2012
Latin American HistoryWas the Mexican Revolution a Success?Alan Knight (Oxford)21 February 2012 Mexico in 1910 was a country beginning the path toward a long and bitter uprising that before its end would turn into a full-scale civil war and eventually into...
Feb 27, 2012
Latin American HistoryMexican Nationalism: History and TheoryDavid Brading (Cambridge)4 October 2011 In 1821 Mexico gained independence from Spain and formed a Republic. By the 1880s a ‘reformation’ had begun to occur in the Mexican church, trade had moved primarily...
