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"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.

Sharply critical analysis of Mexico's recent round of ambitious structural reforms, particularly of oil industry and finance reforms, which author says show direct line of descent from 18th-century Bourbon reforms, politics of Porfirio Diaz and neoliberal ideals of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, historical antecedents vilified by many on left in Mexico. Author was Mexico's youngest elected governor and is currently serving in Congress.

El presente volumen ofrece por primera vez un documento de analisis claro, preciso y critico sobre las condiciones economicas, comerciales y politicas en que se gestara la transformacion estructural de las economias participantes y la actividad comercial entre los paises de la Cuenca del Pacifico, asi como sobre las perspectivas comerciales y politicas previsibles para los proximos anos en uno de los mercados mas importantes del mundo.

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.