Los cazadores de la banda del valle

En este libro, el autor estudia los c dices de la tradici n mesoamericana a partir de las convenciones pictogr ficas que exist an entre pintores y provincias, centr ndose en las representaciones del cuerpo humano y la discusi n sobre el naturalismo. Su aproximaci n tiene que ver, no con el desciframiento, sino con el modo en que la informaci n era transmitida. la historia de las oscilaciones de este arte ind gena del siglo XVI, ampliado por el canon del Renacimiento impuesto por los frailes pero, al mismo tiempo, conservado en algunas destrezas, t cnicas y g neros, es la historia que busca...

"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.

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...

El segundo volumen del epistolario de Plutarco Elas Calles completa la publicacin de un amplio repertorio documental -840 papeles, entre cartas, telegramas, memoranda e informes-, procedente del acervo personal del expresidente y resguardado por el Fideicomiso Archivos Plutarco Elas Calles y Fernando Torreblanca

"A reporter's detailed account, with considerable political insight, of the conflicts between the PRI and the opposition in the state of Michoacán, an intense microcosm of Mexico's political frustrations and electoral fraud occurring from 1886-1993"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.