Medrar para sobrevivir

La investigación se apoya en el archivo judicial de la rica alcaldía mayor de Villa Alta, donde cerca de un centenar de pueblos producía mantas y grana. Entre estas comunidades, la de Yasona - hoy Yatzona - permanece casi desconocida en la documentación antes de 1674 y después de 1707. Pero en ese corto periodo se manifiesta toda una serie de tensiones en lo interno y en lo regional. Los principales nobles (caciques) de Yasona toman la cabeza de dos bandos y manipulan formas rudimentarias de democracia, en pro y en contra de las tradiciones, de la Iglesia, de la autoridad del alcalde...

"Comprehensive listing of nearly 1,000 printed works from Mexico City includes bandos, constitutions, regulations, sermons, and reports of festivities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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...

"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.

Exhibition of the mural and the art surrounding Diego Rivera's famous mural " Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central". Completed in 1947, the mural depicts scenes and people from the Spanish Conquest to the middle of the 20th century. The exhibition is based on the documentary collection of the great collector Ricardo Pérez Escamilla. The exhibition unites in order the documents and original publications that have iconographic roots in the mural. Other works of the epoch have been included to show different imagery or graphics of the images present in the mural as a complement...