La revolución en blanco y negro

An autobiographical testimony as told by Héctor García (b. México 1923), one of the most influential photojournalists in Mexico during the first half of the 20th century, illustrated with a large number of full-page black and white plates of famous personages like Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo, Pedro Infante, Maria Felix, along unique images of important events. Author Rivera who dedicated close to 5 years defines this editorial project as "Thanks to this extraordinary photographer and thorough chronicler, the reader has the great opportunity to be taken into those passages of the cultural,...

"Comprehensive listing of nearly 1,000 printed works from Mexico City includes bandos, constitutions, regulations, sermons, and reports of festivities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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.

"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.