A History of Mexico Author:Henry Bamford Parkes Widely acclaimed and long in use as a basic work on Mexico, this book covers the history of Mexico from earliest times to the present. The important political leaders..Santa Anna, Juarez, Diaz and the major dramatic events..the Spanish conquest under Cortes , dictatorship under the puppet emmperor Maximilian, the revolution of 1910..are here de... more »finitively portrayed.« less