Historias paralelas

Este cuarto volumen narra los cambios y vivencias del siglo XIX. Desligarse formalmente de Espa a no provoc cambios inmediatos en la vestimenta ni en la comida y mucho menos en la mentalidad de los diversos sectores de la poblaci n. Pero, al poco tiempo, la cultura material se fue transformando. Las casas se constru an de distinta manera, otros ingredientes hicieron su aparici n en la cocina, la educaci n se volvi m s utilitarista, la moral m s laica, el culto religioso m s de espacios privados. Bienes y vivencias antes desconocidos -la luz el ctrica o el transporte en tranv a- se volvieron...

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.

1888, pt. 2, includes meteoroloical observations reported from the Observatorio Meteorológico-Magnético de Central Mexico, for the years 1877-1888.

Sharply critical analysis of Mexico's recent round of ambitious structural reforms, particularly of oil industry and finance reforms, which author says show direct line of descent from 18th-century Bourbon reforms, politics of Porfirio Diaz and neoliberal ideals of Carlos Salinas de Gortari, historical antecedents vilified by many on left in Mexico. Author was Mexico's youngest elected governor and is currently serving in Congress.