Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

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...

"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.

1888, pt. 2, includes meteoroloical observations reported from the Observatorio Meteorológico-Magnético de Central Mexico, for the years 1877-1888.

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.