Entre Santa Anna y Juárez: Ignacio Comonfort

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.

Catalogue of an exhibition organized within the framework of the celebrations for the Bicentennial of the Independence and the Centennial of the Revolution that explore how the national heroes were portrayed in art in the early 19th century. An interesting inclusion is the iconography of national heroes in relation to the sculptures of classic antiquity. The exhibition includes close to 110 pieces including sculptures, paintings, prints, photography, books, manuscripts and some magazines largely produced in the 19th Century in México and Europe.

Las reflexiones de este conjunto de ensayos aspiran a conformar una via que no solo recorra el lapso que separa a la Independencia de la Revolucion sino que tambien alcance al presente y vaya aun mas alla. La riqueza de esta obra colectiva radica en que incorpora a las perspectivas propias de la historia diversos analisis de la memoria y la literatura de esa epoca y posteriores. Los autores logran asi ampliar sus temas de reflexion -de lo historico a lo politico, lo social y lo cultural- y ofrecer un panorama tanto de la actualidad como del futuro inminente, cumpliendo asi la maxima de...

"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.