Las intendencias de la Nueva España

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

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...

Respected political scientists analyze role of electoral left in parliamentary policy and in construction of quality of government. Also broaches topic of organization of leftist groupings in party form. Written during 2018 presidential campaign when victory of leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was near certainty, proposes thesis that left became one of most powerful electoral forces in Mexico by dint of long years of struggle against repression and by tenacity to insert itself in new democratic order.