Historia de la vida cotidiana en México

Este cuarto volumen narra los cambios y vivencias del siglo XIX. Desligarse formalmente de Espana no provoco cambios inmediatos en la vestimenta ni en la comida y mucho menos en la mentalidad de los diversos sectores de la poblacion. Pero, al poco tiempo, la cultura material se fue transformando. Las casas se construian de distinta manera, otros ingredientes hicieron su aparicion en la cocina, la educacion se volvio mas utilitarista, la moral mas laica, el culto religioso mas de espacios privados. Bienes y vivencias antes desconocidos -la luz electrica o el transporte en tranvia- se volvieron ...

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.

"Revisionist view of the traditional interpretation of 1923 revolt as a reaction against Obregón's imposition of Calles. Authors study four different regional revolts between 1923-24, all with different leaders and provoked by different causes: Rómulo Figueroa in Guerrero, Enrique Estrada in Jalisco, Guadalupe Sánchez in Veracruz, and Fortunato Maycotte in Oaxaca. Rebels failed because of a lack of central control or unifying program. Adolfo de la Huerta played only a 'decorative role' in the armed movement against Obregón"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

A three-volume scholarly history of Mexico from European discovery through the U.S.-Mexican war, by scholar-priest of Queretaro and Tamaulipas (1934-2001).

Catalog of the Universidad Iberoamericana's holdings (held at the Biblioteca Francisco Xavier Clavigero) of the letters received by Carmen Romero Rubio in her capacity as wife of Porfirio Díaz, president of Mexico. Most material is from 1888 to 1901.