México, política y coraje

Emilio Rabasa fue un eminente jurista, político, periodista, diplomático y novelista mexicano. Sin embargo, poco se sabe de su vida personal. Hale, investigador del liberalismo mexicano, nos revela aspectos novedosos de la carrera, vida privada y personalidad de Rabasa, y también analiza sus ideas políticas, jurídicas y sociales demostrando la continuidad e incluso la supervivencia del liberalismo de fines del siglo XIX tras la Revolución. Así, encontraremos que el liberalismo de Rabasa fue distinto: estuvo transformado por el positivismo europeo, la política de los científicos y el...

"Explores Mexico's experience with import-subsitution industrialization through the eyes of the Mexican business class. Discusses the agendas of Mexico's major business organizations and evaluates their position on state intervention, state-labor relations, and other issues"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

"Important study of the Maximato (1928-34) sees Cardenismo as the culmination of - rather than the replacement for - many important political developments under Calles. Concludes that there were 'important differences' but also 'essential overlaps' between Calles and Cárdenas. Cardenismo would not have been possible without the Maximato"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

An historiographic and analytical study of the crucial decade of the 1930s under the Cárdenas administration. The author advances the revisionist thesis that the period was more marked by a moderate political climate than one of radical change.