Jalisco 1810-1910

Los objetos realizados para el placer de reyes, nobles, comerciantes e incluso de la gente corriente ofrecen fascinantes testimonios de las modas y pasatiempos de la vida medieval. El amor cortés, la heráldica, los banquetes, la caza y la agricultura proporcionaron buenos temas decorativos. Los cacharros diseñados para comer o beber a menudo estaban decorados con inscripciones, o bien modelados en forma de rostro humano o de caballero. Las bestias del bosque, representadas en el famoso cuerno de Savernake, contrastan con las escenas y símbolos de amor que aparecen tanto en arquetas...

En la década de los cincuenta del siglo pasado Daniel Cosío Villegas integró a un grupo de historiadores para elaborar la Historia moderna de México, finalmente publicada en diez gruesos volúmenes, resultado de diez años de investigación. Esta obra abarca desde la República Restaurada hasta el Porfiriato. El Colegio de México, fiel al compromiso de Cosío Villegas, decidió concluir los trabajos para ofrecer una historia integra de la primera mitad del siglo pasado. Así, lo que el lector tiene en sus manos, ahora en ocho volúmenes, es, finalmente, la conclusión del proyecto y el...

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Seven essays were presented at the conference of 2010 in Jekyll Island on the centenary of this event, so in this book, you will find the origins, the foundation, the decisive events and the future of the Federal Reserve of the United States of America. It is written as an economic and macro-economy history analysis, that starts like you may suppose, with the origins of the Federal Reserve and its firsts effects inside the financial scene of the United States of America, afterwards it analyzes the historic labor of this institution since 1913, year of its foundation, until now and accurately...