"The author of many critically acclaimed books, military historian T.R. Fehrenbach provides the reader with this exciting and timely history of the territory that is today known as Mexico. From the great civilizations of the Olmecs and the Aztecs, to the Spanish settlers who brutally claimed the land for their own. From the political and economic revolutions of the nineteenth century struggles between royalists and those fighting for the people, to modern stories of scandal and the corruption of high government officials. In this newly updated edition, Fehrenbach explains in lucid and compelling words, all of the riveting details that form the history of this turbulent nation. "