Tragedy and triumph: a 500-year history of Mexico
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Episode: Tragedy and triumph: a 500-year history of Mexico
Pub date: 2026-01-05
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The chaos of the Spanish conquest, the humiliation of military defeat to the United States, the disruption of the revolution… Mexican history is often viewed through the lens of trauma and violence. Yet, as Paul Gillingham outlines in a new book, Mexico: A History, this was also one of the earliest democracies in the world – one in which Indigenous…
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