Diario de Mariana

This publication presents a comprehensive study in the context of portraiture and a masterfully realized study of the fundamental stages of Mexico's political events, artistic, social and scientific. It shows how all classes and social groups represented themselves, the visual symbols of power, wealth and collective moral values in New Spain and the evolution in Mexico during Independence as represented by the painters of the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Outstanding works of Spanish artists such as José Joaquín de la Vega, Pelegrí, the Mexican painter Juan...

"Durante mucho tiempo el Estado tarasco ha sido presentado como un ente aislado en Mesoamérica. La presente obra investiga los contactos exteriores del Irechecua Tzintzuntzani y muestra que no sólo en el ámbito cultural, sino también en el político y económico, participó en el multicéntrico sistema mundo mesoamericano del Posclásico. Aparte del análisis de los contactos con grupos y regiones dentro de Mesoamérica, se incluye el estudio de las relaciones con Aridoamérica y se evalúa la posibilidad de contactos con Centroamérica y Suramérica. Se explora además la fragmentación...

"Nine critical essays by well-known authors (González Casanovas, De la Peña, Eduardo Menéndez, and others) examine role of government and public policies during 1980s. Some issues include health, education and technology policies, Church-State relations, political transformation toward modernization, and new political culture"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

"Focuses on the government's liberalization of trade, particularly that with North America. Concludes with an excellent assessment of the pros and cons of the external sector reforms"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.