Mexico: What Everyone Needs to Know by Roderic Ai Camp

The Wilson Center's Mexico Institute is pleased to invite you to the book launch Mexico: What Everyone Needs to Know (2017) by Roderic Ai Camp, Phillip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim at Claremont McKenna College.

Roderic Ai Camp will be presenting his newly published book from Oxford University Press with comments from William Beezley. This work is designed to inform the general public as well as specialists with the most recent information and interpretations to a wide range of current issues affecting Mexico and Mexican-United States relations. It is the first publication to incorporate links to a unique digital project, led by Beezley and Camp, to record and preserve professionally filmed video interviews with prominent Mexican figures who contributed significantly to Mexico’s democratic transition from 1988 to 2012. Currently, five completed interviews with Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas, President Felipe Calderón, Jamie Serra Puche, Miguel Basáñez, and Cecilia Soto González, are available on the website of the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Latin American History. The project has been supported by Oxford University Press, the Mexico Institute, Woodrow Wilson Center, and Claremont McKenna College.

Speakers:

Roderic Ai Camp, Philip M. McKenna Professor of the Pacific Rim, Claremont McKenna College & Advisory Board Memeber, Mexico Institute

William Beezley, Professor of History, University of Arizona & Editor in Chief of the Oxford Encyclopedia of Latin American History.

Moderator:

Duncan Wood, Director, Mexico Institute