Don José de Gálvez y la Comandancia General de las Provincias Internas del norte de Nueva España

Essays by specialists in several fields that document current Mexican realities and extrapolate what they might portend for country in future. Encompasses wide range of issues and trends, from ethnicity and peasant communities, to church-state relations, unions, environmental concerns, crime, higher education, urban growth, mobility, corruption, democracy and many more. Organized into sections on population, housing and cities; institutions and public policy; and insertion in globalized world.

"Garrido, author of an outstanding historical study of the founding and early years of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, offers the first book-length analysis of the most important internal development within the party's structure: the Corriente Democrática. Analyzes party divisions which produced the Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas presidential candidacy in 1988"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Bajo las nubes de México es un libro de viajes, una crónica caleidoscópica, breve y exhaustiva que nos descubre imágenes y asociaciones inéditas en paisajes tan visitados como la mítica Veracruz y figuras tan populares como los mariachi así como temas sociales de actualidad, como la guerrilla zapatista y aventuras personales.