CONTENTS -- PREFACE -- ACKNOWLEDGMENTS -- 1 THE AZTECS, 1325-1524 -- 2 ENCOUNTER, CONQUEST, AND THE COLONIAL PERIOD, 1502- 1821 -- 3 FROM THE WAR OF INDEPENDENCE TO THE DIAZ DICTATORSHIP, 1810- 1910 -- 4 REVOLUTION AND MODERN MEXICO, 1910- 1997 -- GLOSSARY -- APPENDICES -- Appendix A PLANS, TREATIES, CONSPIRACIES, AND CONSTITUTIONS SINCE 1799 (IN CHRONOLOGICAL ORDER) -- Appendix B NAMES OF MEXICAN POLITICAL PARTIES -- Appendix C ACRONYMS -- Appendix D CHRONOLOGY -- Appendix E ALPHABETICAL INDEX OF RULERS -- BIBLIOGRAPHY -- INDEX.