Las voces de la ciudad

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

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,...

"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.

"Technical and quantitative study of 1960-90 migration, based on census data. Status and variables such as age, occupation, civil status, education, fertility, income, and infant mortality are cross-tabulated. Census data allow only for inter-state migration analysis"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.