Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

"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.

Primer estudio monográfico de la Revolución Mexicana, a través de fotografías tomadas entre 1910 y 1930. Son fotografías tomadas particularmente por fotógrafos mexicanos, descubriendo un gran número de profesionales -no sólo Agustín V. Casasola- que cubrieron el conflicto armado: Samuel Tinoco, Antonio Garduño, Manuel Ramos, Gerónimo Hernández, Amando Salmerón, Cruz Sánchez, Sara Castrejón, brothers Cachú, y Hugo Brehme entre otros.

"Isabela Huffman is a precocious 8 1/2-year-old girl who can't seem to keep herself out of trouble on a visit to Guanajuato, Mexico, with her mother. She wants to be the president when she grows up. Or a ballerina. Or the president and a ballerina. She's dramatic. She sings on the bus, screams like a baby after putting chile powder on her fresh mango and convinces her mom to buy five pair of new shoes for a big family. No matter how many times her mom asks her to just sit down like a normal little girl, she just can't help getting up to take more pictures of her adventures. When will Isabela...

"Excellent compilation of 18 essays devoted to the Porfiriato. Especially recommended are Marichal on the 1888 debt conversion, Buve on conflict in the countryside, and Leticia Reina on the autonomy of indigenous villages. Major contribution to a re-evaluation of a complex period"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.