Week	Lecture and Seminar Topic
Autumn Term	1	NA
	2	Mexico: An Introduction
	3	Mexican Independence (1810-1821)
	4	Democracy and Dictatorship (1821-1846)
	5	The Mexican American War (1846-1848)
		Reading Week
	7	Civil War and Benito Juarez (1848-1876)
	8	Porfirio Diaz: The Liberal Dictator (1876-1910)
	9	The Mexican Revolution (1910-1920)
	10	Land and Labour (1920-1940)
Spring Term	1	Cultural Reforms (1920-1940)
	2	Counter-Revolution and the PRI state (1940-68)
	3	The 1960s in Mexico
	4	The Dirty War (1965-1982)
	5	Modern Mexico: Neoliberalism and Democratization
	6	Reading Week - no lecture or seminar
	7	Modern Mexico: Zapatistas and Indigenous Rights
	8	Modern Mexico: Migration and the Border
	9	Modern Mexico: The Drug Trade
	10	Human Rights in Mexico
Summer Term	1	Revision
	2	Revision