Anuario estadístico del comercio exterior de los Estados Unidos Mexicanos

Articles by: Enrique Provencio, Salomón Chertorivski, Raymundo M. Campos Vázquez, Santiago Capraro, Juan Carlos Moreno-Brid, Stefanie Garry, Mariano Sánchez Talanquer, Graciela Bensusán, Luisa Alcalde, Ricardo Becerra.

"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.

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.

Nacido en 1836, Ireneo Paz fue contemporaneo de Porfirio Diaz, Ignacio M. Altamirano, Vicente Riva Palacio y Juan A. Mateos, entre otros. Abogado, militar, periodista, literato y politico, Paz destaco tambien como divulgador de la historia nacional. En Algunas campanas, que son sus memorias de juventud, relata en forma historica-novelesca la intervencion francesa y el Imperio de Maximiliano. En este primer tomo narra la intervencion francesa en los estados de Occidente.