México

Read Along or Enhanced eBook: Welcome to Canada! From its majestic mountains to its exciting sports, readers are invited to explore what makes Canada so special in this exciting, Spanish-translated nonfiction title! With informational text, fresh vocabulary, and engaging maps, readers will be engaged from beginning to end.

This publication presents a comprehensive study in the context of portraiture and a masterfully realized study of the fundamental stages of Mexico's political events, artistic, social and scientific. It shows how all classes and social groups represented themselves, the visual symbols of power, wealth and collective moral values in New Spain and the evolution in Mexico during Independence as represented by the painters of the eighteenth and first half of the nineteenth centuries. Outstanding works of Spanish artists such as José Joaquín de la Vega, Pelegrí, the Mexican painter Juan...

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.

El estudio de los problemas sociales de México, y en especial de la Revolución Mexicana, ha sido preocupación constante de Jesús Silva Herzog. En esta obra expone los momentos principales de este movimiento armado desde fines del Porfiriato hasta el régimen constitucional de Venustiano Carranza, destacando el trasfondo económico que determinó el cambio radical de la sociedad mexicana. El hacendísmo, con su formación de latifundios en detrimento de peones y de comunidades, las tiendas de raya, el ausentismo de los propietarios, son causas de malestar agrario: en las ciudades, la...

An excellent analysis of the nature and scope of Mexican social assistance programs, recent systemic changes, political implications and future considerations.