Luis Cabrera

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,...

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.

"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.

M s cerca del testimonio o de la narraci n hist rica que del an lisis erudito, esta obra constituye el primer intento de aproximaci n a la Revoluci n mexicana en su conjunto. Esta cr nica ofrece, adem s, una historia fotogr fica de la Revoluci n de 1910 a 1942.