Texas y la Revolución Mexicana

El resumen de la coleccin Una visin de la modernizacin de Mxico ofrece un testimonio de las polticas de la gestin administrativa del presidente Carlos Salinas de Gortari. El primer tomo incluye las reformas en el mbito de la poltica y las reformas sociales. El segundo tomo se enfoca al anlisis de las reformas en el marco institucional, poltica exterior y econmica, poltica educativa y cultural y la reforma urbana.

"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.

"Six essays approach the history of Mexican railroads from the perspective of the 'new economic history.' See especially Soto's essays on the relationship between industry and railroads in Monterrey, and Grunstein Dickter on the difference in approach between the científicos and the Carrancistas; however, all essays are important and well done. Recommended"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

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.