Ensayo político sobre el reino de la Nueva España

"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.

There is nothing so dangerous for a town in America as the disinterested love of the United States. Their protection is a fire necklace. Justo Sierra The Fire Necklace is an immense, astonishing novel, where the vibrant prose melts down with the historical erudition. Valerio Evangelisti has written a book difficult to put down once the reading has started; a book in which the reader's imagination keeps running boldly while memorizing and assimilating the homeland's past. It's the story of the Mexican XIX century as never before has been written; its connective threads are the contradictory...

The Medieval Heritage of Mexico is the result of more than thirty years' intensive research. This work examines, more thoroughly than any other, the medieval legacy that influences life in Spanish-speaking North America to the present day. Focusing on the period from 1517--the expedition of Hernandez de Cordoba--to the middle of the seventeenth century, Weckmann describes how explorers, administrators, judges, and clergy introduced to the New World a culture that was essentially medieval. This culture was, in some respects, a flowering--a rebirth, even--of the ideals and institutions of...

"En esta extraña pero fascinante novela, el Chanfalla, personaje nacido de la entraña misma de la ciudad de México, vive su adolescencia y primera juventud a través de cuatro niveles narrativos que lo rebotan desde la lobreguez de un apando donde lo asalta la rima interior de sus experiencias carcelarias, hasta sus días felices del inicio del porrismo (1938), cuando acosado por los agentes secretos (Tiras) que le exprimen hasta el último cobre obtenido en sus correrías, halla refugio en el viejo plantel de la Preparatoria de San Ildefolso, desde donde escapa al ambiente de los salones...