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.

A collection of colonial documents and correspondence, 1543-1807, relating to the administration of the region of Tlalnepantlan, Estado de Mexico.

In "La muerte de Artemio Cruz" we are present in the last moments of the lif e of a powerful man, one who was a revolutionary soldier, a lover without passion, and a father without a family. Carlos Fuentes reveals in this novel the thoughts of an elderly man who can no longer fend for himself; the man is confronted with an imminent and torturous death, but his will does not allow him to be defeated.

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.

Este volumen incluye contribuciones de destacados especialistas que, en conjunto, brindan una visi n global de diversos aspectos de la realidad nacional. H ctor Fix-Zamudio analiza el poder judicial y sus transformaciones; Juan Rebolledo examina el sistema electoral; Germ n P rez y Samuel Le n estudian el sistema pol tico; H ctor Cuadra investiga la rector a econ mica del Estado, y Samuel Valencia eval a la actuaci n de M xico frente a las relaciones exteriores.