Un país de chiste

El argumento central del libro examina como varios grupos de la elite gubernamental han buscado construir mecanismos mas adecuados ante las exigencias de crecimiento y de modernizacion para contrarrestar el agotamiento del modelo de desarrollo intervencionista y populista, perceptible desde 1968. Este libro es la version castellana de "Mexique: une revolution silencieuse? elites gouvernementales et projet de modernisation, 1970-1995" publicado en Paris en 1999 por la editorial L'Harmattan. Su autora -Isabelle Rousseau- es profesora e investigadora en el Centro de Estudios Internacionales de...

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We Spaniards are the people that have done the most in the history of humanity, even shaping the world we inhabit. But also the people most ashamed of their triumphs, their achievements, their victories and their discoveries. The authors dismantle the most controversial elements of the Black Legend, both the traditional one - the Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, the conquest of America, the scientific and cultural backwardness, slavery - and the one renewed by the work of the nazionalisms.

La admiracion, franca o encubierta, que produce Benito Juarez se debe muy especialmente a que supo ser el sagaz guia de una irrepetible generacion de mexicanos, la nacida a raiz del comienzo del movimiento de Independencia que logro restaurar la Republica. Roeder logra en Juarez y su Mexico uno de los mejores estudios con que se cuenta sobre el hombre y la epoca juarista.