Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

En Mexicana, Salvador Albinana y Horacio Fernandez reconstruyen minuciosamente, y tras haber llevado a cabo un formidable trabajo de camo. la historia de una fascinacion : la que durante los anos veinte y treinta ejercio Mexico sobre los fotografos de vanguardia. ... (Manuel Alvarez Bravo, Agustin Jimenez, Emilio Amero)

"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.

Document referring to an incident where a government official was denied access to a miltary hospital. It refers to an article in a law from 1739 concerning how officials may conduct visits and other commisions in hospitals.

Catalogue of an exhibition organized within the framework of the celebrations for the Bicentennial of the Independence and the Centennial of the Revolution that explore how the national heroes were portrayed in art in the early 19th century. An interesting inclusion is the iconography of national heroes in relation to the sculptures of classic antiquity. The exhibition includes close to 110 pieces including sculptures, paintings, prints, photography, books, manuscripts and some magazines largely produced in the 19th Century in México and Europe.