Imagen y pensamiento en El Tajín

Copy of reports rendered by Bishop Tamarón of Durango in compliance with royal decrees regarding his inspection of his see, which comprised the present territory of Durango, Chihuahua, parts of other Mexican states, and New Mexico. Consists of an introduction and three parts. Printed as Demostración del vastísimo obispado de la Nueva Vizcaya-1765 (ed. by Vito Alessio Robles, Mexico, 1937) Includes a transcript of nearly all of Part I and the itineraries of Part II in the handwriting of Alphonse Pinart (M-M 232 A).

In this new telling of Mexico's Second Empire and Louis Napoléon's installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life. From 1861 to 1866, the French incorporated the armies of Austria, Belgium--including forces from Crimea to Egypt--to fight and subdue the regime of Mexico's Benito Juárez during the time of the U.S. Civil War. France viewed this as a chance to seize Mexican territory in a moment they were convinced the...

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.

"Assesses the local impact of the Bourbon reforms on northwest Mexico and sheds light on the effectiveness - or lack thereof - of the reform plan"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.