La aplicación regional de las reformas borbónicas en Nueva España

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...

Mexico may be able to recover Texas, Arizona and New Mexico. Will Venustiano Carranza accept the offer of the German government to recover that lost territory? Silently a violent storm is growing. The Mexican president analyze the German Kaizer Guillermo II, without knowing that this telegram Zimmermann Telegram- has been decrypted by Great Britain detonating the first world war.

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.

"Revisionist view of the traditional interpretation of 1923 revolt as a reaction against Obregón's imposition of Calles. Authors study four different regional revolts between 1923-24, all with different leaders and provoked by different causes: Rómulo Figueroa in Guerrero, Enrique Estrada in Jalisco, Guadalupe Sánchez in Veracruz, and Fortunato Maycotte in Oaxaca. Rebels failed because of a lack of central control or unifying program. Adolfo de la Huerta played only a 'decorative role' in the armed movement against Obregón"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.