History of Mexico Assignment | Online Assignment

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Instructions – Analytical Paper

The purpose of this paper is to have students analyze change and continuity in Mexican history. Thinking about history in terms of change and continuity is a method by which historians explore deeper patterns of the past.

1) Choose ONE or TWO course themes to organize your paper. For example, write about religion and society; politics and the Catholic Church; women and society; pueblos and haciendas; Mexico’s relations with foreign powers; political violence and revolutionary wars; ethnicity and indigenous groups; etc. Choose any topic you would like.

2) Compare at least TWO periods in Mexican history pertaining to your themes of choice. For example, compare land conflicts in the colonial period to land conflicts during the Mexican Revolution in the early 20th century. To frame your analysis, explain how [insert topic] evolved during those periods. What changed, and what stayed the same? For example, a paper on religion in Mexico could compare the Mesoamerican religions to post-Conquest Catholicism and explore the ways religion both changed and remained the same in Mexican society during those periods.

3) Cite and discuss readings in The Mexico Reader and other course textbooks to provide specific evidence for your analysis of change and continuity. You are not required to do additional research for this paper.

Use Chicago–style footnotes to cite the course textbooks. See the examples below for the proper citation format.1 To insert a footnote into a word document, go to the “references” tab and click “insert footnote.” You do not need to cite any information that I presented to you during lecture or class discussion.

Format, length, and grading

Each paper is required to be 4-5 pages in length, double spaced, 12-point font, with one-inch margins.

The grading weights for the paper are as follows: 25% quality of writing; 25% depth of analysis; 25% strength of supporting evidence; 25% referencing sources.

1 Octavio Paz, “The Sons of La Malinche,” in The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics, ed. G. M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson (Durham, N.C.: Duke University Press, 2002), 20–27. Matthew Restall, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003), 5. Timothy J. Henderson, A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States (New York: Hill and Wang, 2008), 1.

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Textbook Information: (each on reserve at the library circulation desk)

1. M. Joseph and Timothy J. Henderson, eds., The Mexico Reader: History, Culture, Politics (Durham:

Duke University Press, 2002).

Matthew Restall, Seven Myths of the Spanish Conquest (New York: Oxford University Press, 2003).

Timothy J. Henderson, A Glorious Defeat: Mexico and Its War with the United States (New York: Hill and Wang, 2007).

Alan Knight, The Mexican Revolution: A Very Short Introduction (New York: Oxford University Press, 2016).