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The Medieval Heritage of Mexico is the result of more than thirty years' intensive research. This work examines, more thoroughly than any other, the medieval legacy that influences life in Spanish-speaking North America to the present day. Focusing on the period from 1517--the expedition of Hernandez de Cordoba--to the middle of the seventeenth century, Weckmann describes how explorers, administrators, judges, and clergy introduced to the New World a culture that was essentially medieval. This culture was, in some respects, a flowering--a rebirth, even--of the ideals and institutions of...

The main body of the book is the facsimile and transcription of the collection of themanuscript and typed letters and telegraphs mailed between artist Frida Kahlo and doctor LeoEloesser, and enriched with contributions written by experts in art and medicine such as CarlosMonsivais, Teresa del Conde, Juan Pascoe, and others. The group of letters corresponds to 3phases covering from 1936 to 1951: The first part reflects a courteous friendship and a paternalrelationship of total confidence and where she consults him for all medical and personal matters. The second part of the correspondence airs ...

Estos apuntes y la recopilación documental que se anexa por separado constituyen una parte de la investigación coordinada por el licenciado Roberto Borja Ochoa sobre la clase obrera mexicana en la actualidad. Hemos decidido presentar este informe limitándonos a la CTM. Por constituir, como se sabe, la central más numerosa en el sindicalismo mexicano contemporáneo y la que inició el cambio, al que aludimos, y arrastró a otras centrales, y al CT, a adoptar también nuevas políticas. Se pretende responder a esta pregunta: ¿Qué propone la CTM ante la criris?No ignoramos que el nuevo...

"Excellent compilation of 18 essays devoted to the Porfiriato. Especially recommended are Marichal on the 1888 debt conversion, Buve on conflict in the countryside, and Leticia Reina on the autonomy of indigenous villages. Major contribution to a re-evaluation of a complex period"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.