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El estudio de los problemas sociales de México, y en especial de la Revolución Mexicana, ha sido preocupación constante de Jesús Silva Herzog. En esta obra expone los momentos principales de este movimiento armado desde fines del Porfiriato hasta el régimen constitucional de Venustiano Carranza, destacando el trasfondo económico que determinó el cambio radical de la sociedad mexicana. El hacendísmo, con su formación de latifundios en detrimento de peones y de comunidades, las tiendas de raya, el ausentismo de los propietarios, son causas de malestar agrario: en las ciudades, la...

This comprehensive review of rural policy in Mexico shows that the challenges and potential of rural areas are spatially differentiated and therefore require a place-based policy approach.

Essays by specialists in several fields that document current Mexican realities and extrapolate what they might portend for country in future. Encompasses wide range of issues and trends, from ethnicity and peasant communities, to church-state relations, unions, environmental concerns, crime, higher education, urban growth, mobility, corruption, democracy and many more. Organized into sections on population, housing and cities; institutions and public policy; and insertion in globalized world.

Catalog of the Universidad Iberoamericana's holdings (held at the Biblioteca Francisco Xavier Clavigero) of the letters received by Carmen Romero Rubio in her capacity as wife of Porfirio Díaz, president of Mexico. Most material is from 1888 to 1901.