Dos décadas sin mayoria

"Se trata del problema de la expansión, la organización político-administrativa, militar y económica, la proyección demográfica y las tensiones que se originaron al norte de Nueva España."--Prólogo.

Luis Cabrera fue un ide logo de la Revoluci n que dio a M xico su Carta Magna en 1917. Esta fase de su pensamiento se manifiesta en textos de gran vigor expresivo. A os despu s, alejado de toda actividad pol tica, se mostr contrario a las pol ticas de L zaro C rdenas, de quien fue opositor. Este libro analiza estas dos etapas de este intelectual revolucionario.

Essays by specialists in several fields that document current Mexican realities and extrapolate what they might portend for country in future. Encompasses wide range of issues and trends, from ethnicity and peasant communities, to church-state relations, unions, environmental concerns, crime, higher education, urban growth, mobility, corruption, democracy and many more. Organized into sections on population, housing and cities; institutions and public policy; and insertion in globalized world.

"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.