Galería de fantasmas

Draft of report commenting on a plan proposed by Reginald Carey Brenton for organizing the Mexican Armada, with information on naval history, and a plea for the establishment of a naval academy.

"Detailed study of Michoacán during the governorship of Félix Ireta Viveros. Emphasizes the connections between local and national political processes and argues that, despite the popularity of Cardenismo in Michoacán, Ireta embraced the agenda of the Avila Camacho administration"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Porfirio Díaz es una de las figuras más controvertidas de la historia de México, tanto, que a cien años de su muerte en París, sus restos todavía reposan en el exilio. Mediante los métodos críticos de la historiografía contemporánea, Paul Garner examina la era porfiriana, su origen, carácter y evolución, hasta conseguir un retrato amplio y objetivo de un régimen que si bien impulsó el progreso material, el orden social y la estabilidad política, terminó por caer a causa del autoritarismo y la inflexibilidad, sobre todo de sus últimos años, así como por la torpe respuesta...

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.