Cultura mexicana moderna en el siglo XVIII

"Detailed study of Michoacán during the governorship of Félix Ireta Viveros. Emphasizes the connections between local and national political processes and argues that, despite the popularity of Cardenismo in Michoacán, Ireta embraced the agenda of the Avila Camacho administration"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"Analyzes Camacho's campaign for the governorship of Puebla and his efforts to build alliances with workers, peasants, and the political and economic elites. Explores the links between local power and national politics during the Cárdenas years"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"Catalog of the portraits in the National History Museum, which is the most important collection of colonial portraits in Mexico. A small b/w illustration of each work is accompanied by explanatory text and, in some cases, the biographical dates of the individuals portrayed. Provides date, material, size, and provenance. Also contains a biographical list of artists and illustrations of their signatures in the collection, as well as an index of colonial painters from the 16th-18th centuries and some from the 19th-20th centuries"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Los cambios y transformaciones que se dieron durante la administraci n del general C rdenas pretendieron cimentar una modernizaci n del pa s por medio de acciones concretas que se arraigaron en la cultura pol tica y a n subsisten. el prop sito de los autores de este volumen, el quinto de la serie, no consiste en reflexionar sobre el movimiento encabezado por C rdenas y verlo desde la actualidad como una utop a regresiva; m s bien, su objetivo es contribuir a la construcci n de una historia cr tica de las modernizaciones en M xico.