Diccionario biográfico del gobierno mexicano

La historia de una instituci n de altos estudios tan singular como La Casa de Espa a, y su sucesora El Colegio de M xico -a ya cinco d cadas de su fundaci n- es parte imprescindible de la historia de la cultura en M xico: una historia que est por hacerse y que esta Jornada contribuye a realizar.

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...

"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.

"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.