La política del desarrollo mexicano

Congressional decree of 29 May 1811 extending military honors to the Consejo de Regencia and thanking the military of New Spain for its loyalty to the crown.

"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.

Panorama de la filosofía colonial -- Un siglo de oro -- La defensa frente a Europa -- El humanismo clásico -- La presencia de Descartes -- El pensamiento moderno de los jesuitas -- Los Elementos de filosofía moderna, de Gamarra -- La cima de la Ilustración--Alzate -- La preparación de la Independencia -- Modernidad en pensamiento y acción--Hidalgo.

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.