Estado y desarrollo

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...

"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.

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...

"Garrido, author of an outstanding historical study of the founding and early years of the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, offers the first book-length analysis of the most important internal development within the party's structure: the Corriente Democrática. Analyzes party divisions which produced the Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas presidential candidacy in 1988"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.