Porfirio Díaz

"Porfirio Díaz, president of Mexico (1876-1880, 1884-1911), dominated his country during a crucial phase in its development as a modern nation. This profile places the regime in its appropriate nineteenth-century context, highlighting the difficulty of implementing liberal policies in societies with strong colonial traditions, and of balancing material development with order and stability"--Back cover.

"Se trata del problema de la expansión, la organización político-administrativa, militar y económica, la proyección demográfica y las tensiones que se originaron al norte de Nueva España."--Prólogo.

"Examines Madero's economic ideas and his approach to various economic issues, including labor-management relations, agrarian reform, and fiscal policy. Argues that Madero's economic policies fell somewhere between 19th-century Liberalism and a more modern interventionism"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Luis Cabrera fue un ide logo de la Revoluci n que dio a M xico su Carta Magna en 1917. Esta fase de su pensamiento se manifiesta en textos de gran vigor expresivo. A os despu s, alejado de toda actividad pol tica, se mostr contrario a las pol ticas de L zaro C rdenas, de quien fue opositor. Este libro analiza estas dos etapas de este intelectual revolucionario.

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.