Gesto, identidad y memoria

"Nine critical essays by well-known authors (González Casanovas, De la Peña, Eduardo Menéndez, and others) examine role of government and public policies during 1980s. Some issues include health, education and technology policies, Church-State relations, political transformation toward modernization, and new political culture"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

In "La muerte de Artemio Cruz" we are present in the last moments of the lif e of a powerful man, one who was a revolutionary soldier, a lover without passion, and a father without a family. Carlos Fuentes reveals in this novel the thoughts of an elderly man who can no longer fend for himself; the man is confronted with an imminent and torturous death, but his will does not allow him to be defeated.

"Examines Madero's economic ideas and his approach to various economic issues, including labor-management relations, agrarian reform, and fiscal policy. Argues that Madero's economic policies fell somewhere between 19th-century Liberalism and a more modern interventionism"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Este libro contiene la mayoria de los trabajos presentados en el Simposio Internacional sobre Rancheros y Sociedades Rancheras de México, efectuado en Zamora en 1993. A la convocatoria lanzada conjuntamente por El Colegio de Michoacan, El CEMCA, El ORSTOM y la Universidad Veracruzana acudieron una treintena de investigadores e investigadoras de tres generaciones, de varios paises y de diversas formaciones. Los trabajos aqui reunidos entran a muchos rincones de la geografia y de la historia nacionales; abordan con propiedad numerosos aspectos de la vida Y obra de los rancheros; revelan que...