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Mexico
Ramon Ruiz
其他書名
Why a Few Are Rich and the People Poor
出版
University of California Press
, 2010-08-24
主題
Social Science / Anthropology / Cultural & Social
History / Latin America / General
ISBN
0520947525
9780520947528
URL
http://books.google.com.hk/books?id=Vj0WEQAAQBAJ&hl=&source=gbs_api
EBook
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註釋
Explicitly focusing on the malaise of underdevelopment that has shaped the country since the Spanish conquest, Ramón Eduardo Ruiz offers a panoramic interpretation of Mexican history and culture from the pre-Hispanic and colonial eras through the twentieth century. Drawing on economics, psychology, literature, film, and history, he reveals how development processes have fostered glaring inequalities, uncovers the fundamental role of race and class in perpetuating poverty, and sheds new light on the contemporary Mexican reality. Throughout, Ruiz traces a legacy of dependency on outsiders, and considers the weighty role the United States has played, starting with an unjust war that cost Mexico half its territory. Based on Ruiz’s decades of research and travel in Mexico, this penetrating work helps us better understand where the country has come, why it is where it is today, and where it might go in the future.