@inbook{10.7722/j.ctt9qdnnn.6,
 ISBN = {9781855661349},
 URL = {http://www.jstor.org/stable/10.7722/j.ctt9qdnnn.6},
 abstract = {Mexico is a strikingly unusual and contradictory place. Its modern culture is built upon underlying Indian civilizations, impositions from Spain and successive infusions from Europe and North America: it is a country where the ancient and the modern now coexist, sometimes in hybridized forms and sometimes awkwardly juxtaposed with one another.Like most other Spanish-American countries, Mexico became independent from Spain in the early nineteenth century and then began to tackle the process of establishing its own institutions and showing how it was different from other countries. Ever since then Mexico has gone out of its way to build a},
 author = {PETER STANDISH},
 booktitle = {A Companion to Mexican Studies},
 edition = {NED - New edition},
 pages = {1--6},
 publisher = {Boydell and Brewer},
 title = {Introduction: Limits, Definitions},
 year = {2006}
}