Beginnings of contemporary Mexico

En 1946, ya mace mas de sesenta anos, llego por primera vez a México el historiador francés François Chevalier (1914-2012). Becario del Institut français d'Amérique Latine (IFAL), fue coutratado para ultimar su tesis doctoral sobre la gran propiedad en Nueva Espana. Defendida su tesis en 1949, fue nombrado director del mismo Instituto, funcion que cumplio hasta 1962. Director de una institucion francesa en el extranjero, en un periodo tan complejo y fértil como aquel de la inmediata post segunda querra mondial, promovio un espacio de encuentro y de debate para los investigadores de las...

Victoriano Salado Alvarez, escritor mexicano (1867-1931), narra en clave de ficción la historia del liberalismo mexicano de 1851 a 1867. El autor es considerado uno de los principales representantes de la novela histórica anterior a revolución.

"Catalog of the portraits in the National History Museum, which is the most important collection of colonial portraits in Mexico. A small b/w illustration of each work is accompanied by explanatory text and, in some cases, the biographical dates of the individuals portrayed. Provides date, material, size, and provenance. Also contains a biographical list of artists and illustrations of their signatures in the collection, as well as an index of colonial painters from the 16th-18th centuries and some from the 19th-20th centuries"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

This work contains fresh information located at the Sergei Eisenstein Museum and in his personal archive, both located in Moscow, which clearly indicates that there is still more to say about the Soviet director's unfinished movie, financed by Upton Sinclair. The discovery of the first version of the screenplay as well as books on Mexico and bullfight programs enables the manner in which the film developed and was structured through short stories to be reconsidered.