Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla

There is nothing so dangerous for a town in America as the disinterested love of the United States. Their protection is a fire necklace. Justo Sierra The Fire Necklace is an immense, astonishing novel, where the vibrant prose melts down with the historical erudition. Valerio Evangelisti has written a book difficult to put down once the reading has started; a book in which the reader's imagination keeps running boldly while memorizing and assimilating the homeland's past. It's the story of the Mexican XIX century as never before has been written; its connective threads are the contradictory...

"Nine critical essays by well-known authors (González Casanovas, De la Peña, Eduardo Menéndez, and others) examine role of government and public policies during 1980s. Some issues include health, education and technology policies, Church-State relations, political transformation toward modernization, and new political culture"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 57.

Cua les son los usos y abusos de los y las mexicanas en el siglo XXI? Co mo piensan, co mo actu an, que palabras comunes usan? De do nde vienen las familias; co mo gobiernan en Me xico los presidentes; que uso le dan a las leyes? Preguntas que la prestigiada autora del bestseller, "Manual de la gente bien" quiere responder de manera directa, divertida, para hacer sonrei r a los mexicanos y las mexicanas, pero que tambie n los extranjeros residentes en Me xico o fuera del pai s comprendan a esta parte del mundo donde decir " si " puede ser " no", o donde es comu n utilizar palabras amable en...

"Superb guide to a collection of documents from 1746-1823 given to Univ. Iberoamericana by philanthropist Manuel Arango Arías. Volume contains many papers relating to Miguel Hidalgo and family, as well as a large group devoted to independence. Excellent indices make this work a model of its kind. Recommended"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.