Anales de la Secretaría de Comunicaciones y Obras Públicas

"Revisionist view of the traditional interpretation of 1923 revolt as a reaction against Obregón's imposition of Calles. Authors study four different regional revolts between 1923-24, all with different leaders and provoked by different causes: Rómulo Figueroa in Guerrero, Enrique Estrada in Jalisco, Guadalupe Sánchez in Veracruz, and Fortunato Maycotte in Oaxaca. Rebels failed because of a lack of central control or unifying program. Adolfo de la Huerta played only a 'decorative role' in the armed movement against Obregón"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Analisis pormenorizado de los acontecimientos que posibilitaron el ascenso del general Alvaro Obregon a la cima del poder, en una epoca en la cual la legitimacion total era casi imposible de lograr en el Mexico posrevolucionario.

"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.

This publication presents a comprehensive study in the context of portraiture and a masterfully realized study of the fundamental stages of Mexico's political events, artistic, social and scientific. It shows how all classes and social groups represented themselves, the visual symbols of power, wealth and collective moral values in New Spain and the evolution in Mexico during Independence as represented by the painters of the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Outstanding works of Spanish artists such as José Joaquín de la Vega, Pelegrí, the Mexican painter Juan...