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"In 1821 Mexico was geographically the largest country in the Western hemisphere. By 1853, however, it was but a quarter of its original size. Meanwhile, the United States had expanded its territory enormously - and mostly at Mexico's expense. Similarly, in 1800 Mexico's per capita income was one-half that of the United States; by 1877 it had dropped to one-tenth. Such asymmetries have long characterized the relationship between Mexico and the United States. In this book, W. Dirk Raat pays special attention to the economic factors that have subordinated Mexico not only to "the Colossus of the North" but to many of the other players in the world economy as well. Throughout the book - whether treating the respective colonial histories of Mexico and the United States, the causes and effects of the Mexican War, the challenges of modernization and political revolution, the plight of the Mexican peasant, or the activities of U.S. intelligence organizations in Mexico - Raat frames his discussion within the context of global economic trends. Raat also discusses the complex political, cultural, and social factors that have played such an important role in the interactions between the two countries. In a chapter entitled "Gringos and Greasers," for example, he examines the ethnocentrism that has affected the perceptions Americans and Mexicans have of each other, from the first great clash that occurred during the Texas Revolution through the illegal-immigration controversies of the present. A unique feature of this book is the attention Raat gives to that area where the two countries share a common border and a common history. Traditionally known as the Gran Chichimeca and now usually called Mexamerica, these borderlands are the region in which the Mexican-U.S. cultural dynamics have been most visible. Bilingual and bicultural, neither fully American nor fully Mexican, the region continues to be of primary importance to policymakers on both sides of the Rio Grande. In his epilogue, "The Rediscovery of Mexico," Raat notes some of the recent American interest in Mexican art and culture and suggests that in an age of declining U.S. influence, Americans would do well to recognize their country's own role in Mexico's fall from colonial splendor, the limits of U.S. economic and military power, and the proud sense of cultural identity that characterizes the Mexican people."

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"Mexico and the United States : Ambivalent vistas"
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"Mexico and the United States: ambivalent vistas"
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