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"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.

"Superb guide to a collection of documents from 1746-1823 given to Univ. Iberoamericana by philanthropist Manuel Arango Arías. Volume contains many papers relating to Miguel Hidalgo and family, as well as a large group devoted to independence. Excellent indices make this work a model of its kind. Recommended"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

¿Si pudiéramos escoger a nuestro vecinos elegiríamos a los que tenemos? Difícilmente. Habrá quién diga que sí y debería sentirse afortunado. Porque las relaciones vecinales son en general una larga lista de derrotas. En Los peores vecinos del mundo, Vonne Lara evidencia, narra y fabula sobre las situaciones que se derivan de la convivencia vecinal. Relaciones que nunca se acaban aunque uno se vaya a su casa y porque se está en ella. Aunque los textos hacen referencia al barrio de la autora, los fenómenos de los que habla rozan la universalidad. Y es que, nos guste o no, todos somos...

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,...