Ferrocarriles y vida económica en México, 1850-1950

Author Alejandra Mora explores a fascinating aspect of vernacular photography: the "amplifications in cloth", a long field research that started in the town of San Pablo Huitzo, Etla, Oaxaca, and spanned all the way into Mexico City with the intention of locating the creators of such unique portraits, who using new technologies have managed to satisfy customer demands. Illuminated images that satisfied the popular beauty conceptions of the body, hairstyles, fashion and jewelry, including the wedding photography.

"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.

El presente volumen reune los trabajos presentados durante el Congreso Internacional Sor Juana y su Mundo: Una mirada Actual, organizado por Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana en 1995. Este congreso significo para dicha Universidad la realizacion de uno de sus objetivos: contribuir al estudio, a la reflexion y difusion de la vida, del pensamiento, de la obra y del mundo de sor Juana.

Accompanying CD-ROM contains video on the expulsion of the Jesuits from Tepotzotlán, biographical data on the expelled Jesuits, photographs of Tepotzotlán, México, and Bologna, Italy, along with videogames and interactive features--See back cover.