Entre la caridad y el derecho

Este libro contiene la mayoria de los trabajos presentados en el Simposio Internacional sobre Rancheros y Sociedades Rancheras de México, efectuado en Zamora en 1993. A la convocatoria lanzada conjuntamente por El Colegio de Michoacan, El CEMCA, El ORSTOM y la Universidad Veracruzana acudieron una treintena de investigadores e investigadoras de tres generaciones, de varios paises y de diversas formaciones. Los trabajos aqui reunidos entran a muchos rincones de la geografia y de la historia nacionales; abordan con propiedad numerosos aspectos de la vida Y obra de los rancheros; revelan que...

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...

La venta fue el centro mas importante de la cultura olmeca, y puede considerarse la cuna de la civilizacion en el Mexico prehispanico. Los protagonistas de esta historia son un mago y su joven aprendiz.