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.

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.

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

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.

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.