Las intendencias de la Nueva España

"Examines Madero's economic ideas and his approach to various economic issues, including labor-management relations, agrarian reform, and fiscal policy. Argues that Madero's economic policies fell somewhere between 19th-century Liberalism and a more modern interventionism"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Congressional decree of 29 May 1811 extending military honors to the Consejo de Regencia and thanking the military of New Spain for its loyalty to the crown.

El ej rcito en el M xico borb nico, 1760-1810 da cuenta de los esfuerzos que hizo la Corona espa ola por constituir una fuerza militar en Nueva Espa a con el objeto de impedir una invasi n inglesa. la obra ubica al ej rcito novohispano en el contexto m s amplio de las estrategias defensivas coloniales, desentra ando de paso el modo en que las autoridades espa olas cumpl an la conscripci n militar.

In "La muerte de Artemio Cruz" we are present in the last moments of the lif e of a powerful man, one who was a revolutionary soldier, a lover without passion, and a father without a family. Carlos Fuentes reveals in this novel the thoughts of an elderly man who can no longer fend for himself; the man is confronted with an imminent and torturous death, but his will does not allow him to be defeated.