Mexican-European Connections, 1821-1982 ((3))

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This course focuses on connections between Modern Mexico (since 1821) and Modern Western Europe. This theme has not received much attention, and has been overshadowed by the Mexican-United States and the Mexican-Latin America relationships. Nevertheless, there are a multitude of connections, and this trans-Atlantic relationship deserves more attention. Among the topics covered are the San Patricios, the French Invasion, British interests in mining and oil, German strategic and military interests, Graham Greene's novel The Power and the Glory, the Spanish Civil War, Nazi interests in Mexico, Europeans and Mexicans fleeing across the ocean for various reasons, and artists, actors and writers taking inspiration from both sides of the Atlantic. (Transatlantic/Identities)