Administración y política en la historia de México

"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.

Porfirio Díaz es una de las figuras más controvertidas de la historia de México, tanto, que a cien años de su muerte en París, sus restos todavía reposan en el exilio. Mediante los métodos críticos de la historiografía contemporánea, Paul Garner examina la era porfiriana, su origen, carácter y evolución, hasta conseguir un retrato amplio y objetivo de un régimen que si bien impulsó el progreso material, el orden social y la estabilidad política, terminó por caer a causa del autoritarismo y la inflexibilidad, sobre todo de sus últimos años, así como por la torpe respuesta...

Los de abjo treats what is perhaps the saddest period in modern Mexican history, a period of aimless slaughter when a whole nation was plunged into strife by leaders who had few clear ideas of what they were striving for. The reader shares the same disillusionment that the author himself must have felt as he met leader after leader whose revolutionary zeal was merely a disguise for base passions and desires.

"Traces the political careers of two 'fundamental figures' of the Revolution, both of whom thought that Mexico's future lay in modernization through industrialization. Although Lombardo supported Alemán for the presidency in 1946, the 'bifurcation' soon took place as each had a different vision of the proper road to modernization"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58