La economía mexicana: Política y desarrollo

En la obra “El retrato en México: 1781-1867. Héroes, emperadores y ciudadanos para una nueva nación"” la autora analiza la producción plástica del género del retrato durante ese periodo. Se estudian en primer lugar los retratos producidos por los profesores y alumnos de la Real Academia de Bellas Artes de San Carlos de la ciudad de México desde su fundación, en 1784 hasta el periodo de 1867. Se hace especial hincapié en los retratos realizados por los profesores españoles que allí impartieron sus enseñanzas como Rafael Jimeno y Planes y Pelegrín Clavé. En segundo lugar se...

The history of Mexico is spanned in these high-interest books written in diary form. Each book is narrated from the perspective of a woman who might have lived in that time. Text copyright 2004 Lectorum Publications, Inc.

Author Alejandra Mora explores a fascinating aspect of vernacular photography: the "amplifications in cloth", a long field research that started in the town of San Pablo Huitzo, Etla, Oaxaca, and spanned all the way into Mexico City with the intention of locating the creators of such unique portraits, who using new technologies have managed to satisfy customer demands. Illuminated images that satisfied the popular beauty conceptions of the body, hairstyles, fashion and jewelry, including the wedding photography.

Los de abjo treats what is perhaps the saddest period in modern Mexican history, a period of aimless slaughter when a whole nation was plunged into strife by leaders who had few clear ideas of what they were striving for. The reader shares the same disillusionment that the author himself must have felt as he met leader after leader whose revolutionary zeal was merely a disguise for base passions and desires.