Cultura mexicana moderna en el siglo XVIII

"Isabela Huffman is a precocious 8 1/2-year-old girl who can't seem to keep herself out of trouble on a visit to Guanajuato, Mexico, with her mother. She wants to be the president when she grows up. Or a ballerina. Or the president and a ballerina. She's dramatic. She sings on the bus, screams like a baby after putting chile powder on her fresh mango and convinces her mom to buy five pair of new shoes for a big family. No matter how many times her mom asks her to just sit down like a normal little girl, she just can't help getting up to take more pictures of her adventures. When will Isabela...

San Antonio es la cuna de la libertad del estado de Texas, pero también de México. Y en este punto vale la pena detenerse para hacer una primera afirmación: la historia de Texas no se puede entender sin la de México y viceversa. Comparten pasado, pero también espíritu. Esta ha sido la casa que con amistad y respeto ha alojado a los más insignes mexicanos de los que se tenga memoria, en estas páginas se evoca a Francisco I. Madero, iniciador de la Revolución mexicana y padre del México moderno, para quien Estados Unidos y la ciudad de San Antonio fueron algo más que familiar.

Selection of the papers presented at the XXIII Encuentro Nacional de Investigadores del Pensamiento Novohispano in Zacatecas in 2010.

"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.