Mexico
“Overthrow of the Dictatorial Elements”: The Goals of the Mexican Revolution
An example of how states around the world challenged the existing political and economic order at the start of the twentieth century.
"People Who Have Interrupted Empire": African and Indigenous Resistance in the Sixteenth and Early Seventeenth Centuries
I’ve looked at more world history textbooks than I want to admit. One thing almost all of them have in common is some discussion of Portuguese maritime expansion along the western coast of Africa in the fifteenth century and the Spanish and Portuguese conquest of the Americas in the