Transnationalizing the Nation-Building History of Mexico from the XVIIIth to the XXth century

Abstract

The main obstacle to the development of a history of Mexico that would be “transnational” and “connected” to its northern neighbor lies in the nationalism and the anti-Americanism which, for reasons that are historical as well as political and ideological, that characterize the Mexican historiography as much as the collective identity. Nevertheless, the density of the interactions between Mexicans and north-Americans in almost every aspects of their collective life – economy, culture, politics – during the 19th and 20th centuries opens many historiographical perspectives.

Keywords

• Nationalism
• North America
• Mexico
• Empire
• Anti-Americanism