Contactos exteriores del Estado Tarasco

"Analyzes Camacho's campaign for the governorship of Puebla and his efforts to build alliances with workers, peasants, and the political and economic elites. Explores the links between local power and national politics during the Cárdenas years"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

In this new telling of Mexico's Second Empire and Louis Napoléon's installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life. From 1861 to 1866, the French incorporated the armies of Austria, Belgium--including forces from Crimea to Egypt--to fight and subdue the regime of Mexico's Benito Juárez during the time of the U.S. Civil War. France viewed this as a chance to seize Mexican territory in a moment they were convinced the...

A series of narratives based on the history of a hacienda in San Gertrudis, Chihuahua during the Mexican revolution, with focus on the incursion of rebel troops and the reaction of rural residents. The author (1944) is a native of San Gertrudis.

Respected political scientists analyze role of electoral left in parliamentary policy and in construction of quality of government. Also broaches topic of organization of leftist groupings in party form. Written during 2018 presidential campaign when victory of leftist candidate Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador was near certainty, proposes thesis that left became one of most powerful electoral forces in Mexico by dint of long years of struggle against repression and by tenacity to insert itself in new democratic order.