McWilliams' North From Mexico, first published in 1949, provides a comprehensive general history of the Mexican experience in the United States. Now fully updated by Matt S. Meier to cover the period 1945 through 1988, North From Mexico explores all aspects of the Chicano experience in the United States including family, employment, education, assimilation, political, cultural, and economic issues. Widely used in college courses on Chicano and Southwestern U.S. history and culture, the volume provides a comprehensive general history of the Chicano experience in the United States, beginning with the early aboriginal inhabitants and covering to the present. Copyright (C) Muze Inc. 2005. For personal use only. All rights reserved.