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.

The main body of the book is the facsimile and transcription of the collection of themanuscript and typed letters and telegraphs mailed between artist Frida Kahlo and doctor LeoEloesser, and enriched with contributions written by experts in art and medicine such as CarlosMonsivais, Teresa del Conde, Juan Pascoe, and others. The group of letters corresponds to 3phases covering from 1936 to 1951: The first part reflects a courteous friendship and a paternalrelationship of total confidence and where she consults him for all medical and personal matters.The second part of the correspondence airs...

Cua les son los usos y abusos de los y las mexicanas en el siglo XXI? Co mo piensan, co mo actu an, que palabras comunes usan? De do nde vienen las familias; co mo gobiernan en Me xico los presidentes; que uso le dan a las leyes? Preguntas que la prestigiada autora del bestseller, "Manual de la gente bien" quiere responder de manera directa, divertida, para hacer sonrei r a los mexicanos y las mexicanas, pero que tambie n los extranjeros residentes en Me xico o fuera del pai s comprendan a esta parte del mundo donde decir " si " puede ser " no", o donde es comu n utilizar palabras amable en...

"Concerned with the geographical definition of the intendancies and their administrative structure. Excellent maps make this work a useful tool for historical geography"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.