Materia de sombras

"Series of essays by leading authorities on the various facets of Mexico's economic/social arrangements. Essays vary from philosophical discussions of Marx and Marxists to comparisons with the situation in other countries. Several of the essays discuss the evolution of government programs, while several stress the country's legal and institutional structure"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Biografía muy documentada de quien fuera presidente de la Audiencia de la Nueva España y conquistador de Jalisco (1527-1538), que acabó encarcelado y deportado a España por incontables delitos de crueldad, sevicia y corrupción contra los naturales y españoles. Completan el volumen las cartas del biografiado en descargo de las acusaciones que se le hicieron.

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...

Articles and letters by Cosío Villegas and other scholars, previously published in various periodicals, discussing the Mexican Revolution, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, and Armando R. Pareyón Azpeitia.