En un día como hoy--

A trav s de los ojos de Ant oco Cruces y Luis Campa, esta obra nos muestra una cr nica de la ciudad de M xico en el siglo XIX. Caminaremos por sus calles, conoceremos costumbres, veremos personajes y escucharemos los pregones de los vendedores que daban vida a la cotidianidad de la ciudad.

Exhibition of the mural and the art surrounding Diego Rivera's famous mural " Sueño de una tarde dominical en la Alameda Central". Completed in 1947, the mural depicts scenes and people from the Spanish Conquest to the middle of the 20th century. The exhibition is based on the documentary collection of the great collector Ricardo Pérez Escamilla. The exhibition unites in order the documents and original publications that have iconographic roots in the mural. Other works of the epoch have been included to show different imagery or graphics of the images present in the mural as a complement...

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.

La frontera entre Mexico y Estados Unidos no es una convencion geografica sino un problema politico y cultural que se acentua cuando alguno de los dos paises pasa por un momento de crisis. Este libro detalla como se vivio en la frontera con Texas la Revolucion mexicana y los caudillos mas importantes del movimiento surgido en el norte de Mexico.