Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

"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.

"Excellent study of the Dominican Order in the 16th century. Avoids a chronological account giving the reader instead a methodical analysis of the institutional, social, and economic organization of the order. To the prototypes of the urban and the rural convents, Pita Moreda adds a balanced assessment of the missionary activities"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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.

La obra muestra los dos rasgos que han marcado las complejas relaciones mexicano-norteamericanas: cooperación y desacuerdo, factores especialmente marcados durante el sexenio 1982-1988. Deuda externa, comercio, migración, narcotráfico, medio ambiente, política exterior, fueron, entre otros, algunos temas que ambos países abordaron bilateralmente. La írevolución conservadoraî de Ronald Reagan y la dramática crisis económica heredada por el gobierno de Miguel de la Madrid son sólo un par de aspectos de ese difícil momento histórico. Diplomático de carrera, Astié-Burgos presenció ...