El levantamiento delahuertista

"Important contribution for understanding the crucial transitional regime of Manuel Avila Camacho (1940-46). Series of detailed essays explores Mexico's public policy during the period, particularly its international linkages to and role in hemispheric defense. Also examines development of important labor movements and the composition of corporatist interest groups. Includes an imaginative interpretation of cultural contributions by Carlos Monsiváis"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Manuscript circular ofrelating to military assistance from "our generous neighbor to the North" [i.e. the United States]] during the Mexican war of independence and informing the insurgents of the arrival numerous ships and the names of their captains including the ship El Tigre loaded with 3000 barrels of gunpowder. Rayó́n adds that the allied ships have already captured three European ships from Veracruz to Tuxpan.

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...

Francisco Villa es un �cono indiscutible de la revoluci�n mexicana, en la cultura de masas fue erigido como el defensor de las causas populares, su biograf�a es una mezcla de historia y leyenda, su nombre es ampliamente reconocido, no obstante, la construcci�n de su mito ha dejado de lado una parte oscura que autores filovillistas han negado, minimizado e incluso justificado: los cr�menes cometidos contra la poblaci�n civil.En algunas localidades del norte de M�xico es el resentimiento y el dolor lo que evoca la figura del legendario guerrillero. Hombres mujeres y ni�os de...