Historia de la vida cotidiana en México

"Technical and quantitative study of 1960-90 migration, based on census data. Status and variables such as age, occupation, civil status, education, fertility, income, and infant mortality are cross-tabulated. Census data allow only for inter-state migration analysis"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

The book edited by researchers Thomas Calvo and Paulina Machuca - both members of the project "Proyecto Vencer la distancia" (Overcoming the distance) - comprises the participation of fourteen specialists in the discipline of social sciences. "If the Philippines and Mexico had had very close relationships in the two and a half centuries that the Manila Galleon was sailing (1565-1815), the relations diluted when Mexico chose Independence and the Philippines continued under Spanish domain until 1898. It was precisely these years of disagreement that we were interested in: like all the periods...

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.

En 1946, ya mace mas de sesenta anos, llego por primera vez a México el historiador francés François Chevalier (1914-2012). Becario del Institut français d'Amérique Latine (IFAL), fue coutratado para ultimar su tesis doctoral sobre la gran propiedad en Nueva Espana. Defendida su tesis en 1949, fue nombrado director del mismo Instituto, funcion que cumplio hasta 1962. Director de una institucion francesa en el extranjero, en un periodo tan complejo y fértil como aquel de la inmediata post segunda querra mondial, promovio un espacio de encuentro y de debate para los investigadores de las...