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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.

Orígenes del estancamiento del siglo XIX, 1780-1820. La depresión económica inmediata y sus secuelas, 1820-1840. Recuperación lenta y gradual (1850 a 1870). El Porfiriato. Integración del mercado y expansión económica (1880-1913).

"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.

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