Entre la caridad y el derecho

El llamado ímilagroî mexicano se caracterizó por un crecimiento sostenido de la economía que, sin embargo, no logró reducir la desigualdad de ingresos. La estrategia del desarrollo se tradujo en hacer más ricos a los ricos y más pobres a los pobres, disminuir el paso de la reforma agraria y controlar estrictamente las actividades sindicales. El estudio abarca de mediados de los años treinta a principios de los setenta, por lo que resulta indispensable para entender la crisis del presente.

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...

"Translation into Spanish of an important early-18th-century report on the social and economic conditions of New Spain by a Frenchman at the service of Spain. The report offered many suggestions on improving the trade and economy of New Spain"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"Important study of the Maximato (1928-34) sees Cardenismo as the culmination of - rather than the replacement for - many important political developments under Calles. Concludes that there were 'important differences' but also 'essential overlaps' between Calles and Cárdenas. Cardenismo would not have been possible without the Maximato"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.