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Mexico

Name: Mexico
Brand: Penguin UK
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A History

By: Paul Gillingham

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Paperback | 12 November 2026 | Edition Number 1

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This sweeping new history of Mexico spans 500 dramatic years of conquest, innovation and revolution 'Magisterial... This fine account does well to remind that the best history is about fact, not fiction' - Peter Frankopan, The TelegraphIt begins in 1511 with the shipwreck of two Spanish sailors in Yucat¡n. Only ten years later, an army of European adventurers and indigenous rebels seized the island city of Tenochtitl¡n, seat of one of the worldâs great empires. It would become Mexico City, and marked the collision of two radically different worlds. Spaniards discovered tomatoes, chocolate and the most sophisticated city they had ever seen. For Mexicans the encounter brought horses, wheels, but also lethal germs â" sparking a cataclysmic century of disease that would kill a majority of the indigenous population. Paul Gillinghamâs superb history chronicles how this convulsion led to a startling recombination of cultures. He shows how the industrial mining of Mexicoâs silver transformed the wealth and trade of the world, making it the centre of the first truly global economy. We then see how independence from Spain went on to bring calamitous wars with the United States and France. One of the worldâs great social revolutions then remade Mexico and ushered in a one-party state that, whatever its shortcomings, brought peace throughout many of the global horrors of the twentieth century â" before the country collapsed into violence in the drug wars of the 2000s. Mexico: A History uses the latest research to dazzling effect, showing how often Mexico has been one of the worldâs great innovators; a dynamic and vital shaper of world affairs.

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