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YAMexico: Beautiful Land, Diverse People series.
These volumes provide decent, if basic, overviews. Facts focuses on the different states. Government describes the political shifts from native empires to European colony to independent republic. Economy highlights agriculture, industry, and trade. People reads like an expanded version of the first half of History. Many photographs and reproductions illustrate the texts. There are five other fall 2008 books in this series. Reading list, timeline, websites. Glos., ind. Review covers these Mexico: Beautiful Land, Diverse People titles: The Government of Mexico, The History of Mexico, Mexico: Facts and Figures, The Economy of Mexico, and The People of Mexico.