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The Life and Times of Pancho Villa
Alongside Moctezuma and Benito Juárez, Pancho Villa is probably the best-known figure in Mexican history. Villa legends pervade not only Mexico but the United States and beyond, existing not only in the popular mind and tradition but in ballads and movies. There are legends of Villa the Robin Hood, Villa the womanizer, and Villa as the only foreigner who has attacked the mainland of the United States since the War of 1812 and gotten away with it. Whether exaggerated or true to life, these legends have resulted in Pancho Villa the leader obscuring his revolutionary movement, and the myth in turn obscuring the leader. Based on decades of research in the archives of seven countries, this defin...
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Tomás Alvira
Tomás Alvira (1906-1992) fue un pedagogo español, padre de nueve hijos y uno de los tres primeros supernumerarios del Opus Dei. Se ha iniciado su proceso de beatificación en la Iglesia católica, y también el de su mujer, Paquita Domínguez. Doctor en Ciencias Químicas, investigador del CSIC, catedrático de Instituto en Ciencias Naturales, director de colegio y consejero nacional de Educación, Alvira será también uno de los iniciadores de Fomento de Centros de Enseñanza, director de su Escuela Universitaria de Profesorado e iniciador del Club Jara. Esta biografía del historiador Alfredo Méndiz ahonda en el mundo interior de Alvira, asomando al lector a la grandeza de una vida corriente al servicio de la sociedad de su tiempo.
Mexican Political Biographies, 1884–1934
Here is an authoritative reference work that makes biographies of prominent Mexican national politicians from the period 1884–1934 available in English. Like the author's biographical directory for the years 1935–2009, it draws on many years of research in Mexico and the United States and seeks not only to provide accurate biographical information about each entry but also, where possible and appropriate, to connect these politicians to more recent leadership generations. Thus, Mexican Political Biographies, 1884-1934 not only is a useful historical source but also provides additional information on the family backgrounds of many contemporary figures. The work includes those figures who ...
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