México y Estados Unidos

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...

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...

En estas paginas se presenta una seleccion de los parrafos mas iluminados de la Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva Espana. Se trata de las descripciones mas apasionadas y asombrosas que se quedarian para siempre en la memoria del cronista. Aqui se perciben el azoro ante lo desconocido, la admiracion ante las grandezas del mundo mexica, la sentida importancia que el autor confiere a los hechos en los que participa y todo un vertigo de colores, sabores, edificios y multitudes que no parecen sino cosas de encantamiento.

1888, pt. 2, includes meteoroloical observations reported from the Observatorio Meteorológico-Magnético de Central Mexico, for the years 1877-1888.