La revolución en crisis

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.

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 doce trabajos que contiene México, el nuevo escenario político ante el bicentenario se sitúan en un polígono problemático de la Ciencia Política, donde sus lados quedan enmarcados por las instituciones políticas, las políticas públicas, el sistema electoral y los sistemas de partidos, tanto en el ámbito federal como estadual, los cambios en la cultura política y los medios de comunicación. Sobre ellos se articula una profunda reflexión sobre la política mexicana a mediados de 2009, que busca atender la complejidad del proceso de desarrollo político y el desafío no menor de ...

"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.