Mirrors and Echoes

«La Historia debe ser una lección del pasado para afrontar y orientar el presente e inducir [...] el futuro que deseamos», escribe Iturriaga. Fiel a este precepto, en este libro encontraremos no solo una compilación de las enfermedades más relevantes en México, sino herramientas para abordar nuestro presente y, por tanto, nuestro futuro a medio y largo plazo. Este volumen ofrece un recorrido cronológico por las epidemias que asolaron México desde la época prehispánica hasta nuestros días. Aunque son innumerables las investigaciones acerca de la historia de eventos epidémicos en el ...

When Friar Diego Bringas penned his 1796–97 report on conditions in northwestern New Spain, he was imbued with an enthusiastic drive for reform. Hoping to gain the King of Spain’s support in improving the missionary program, Bringas set down a detailed history of all that had happened in the region since Father Kino’s day. His writings offer a valuable study of Spanish attempts to bring about cultural change among the Piman Indians. Daniel S. Matson and Bernard L. Fontana have translated the Bringas document and added an informative introduction, notes, and references. They analyze...

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

En este libro se analiza el proceso de urbanizaci n de M xico durante todo el siglo XX, interrelacionado con el desarrollo econ mico que constituye su principal determinante hist rico. Adicionalmente, se efect a un exhaustivo inventario de las pol ticas territoriales del Estado Mexicano que han intentado normar y dirigir el crecimiento urbano para propiciar un sistema de ciudades equilibrado y sustentable.