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Coyame is the wide-ranging account of a small town in Mexico. The author provides readers with a panoramic view of history from the Mayans to the Villa revolutionaries and beyond. The history of the region is brought into stark detail with the inclusion of the tales, legends, and family histories of Coyame’s colorful residents. Morales presents the information with great care and passion; both historians and casual readers will benefit from the candor and whimsy that mark this unique contribution.
Coyame is the wide-ranging account of a small town in Mexico. The author provides readers with a panoramic view of history from the Mayans to the Villa revolutionaries and beyond. The history of the region is brought into stark detail with the inclusion of the tales, legends, and family histories of Coyame’s colorful residents. Morales presents the information with great care and passion; both historians and casual readers will benefit from the candor and whimsy that mark this unique contribution.
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Tras seis décadas de que el Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI) gobernó a México como partido hegemónico, la democratización en el país ha sido objeto de estudio en distintos niveles. Este proceso comenzó en los gobiernos locales, pero aún es reducido el número de investigaciones que documentan la evolución en este plano. Esta obra aborda el caso de Jalisco, uno de los primeros estados en donde el PRI cedió el poder. Aconteció en 1995, cuando perdió la gubernatura frente al Partido Acción Nacional (PAN), que la retuvo por 18 años, para luego cederla de nuevo al partido tricolor. Lo acontecido en estos tres sexenios se reconstruye a través de siete ensayos, en los que s...
No visitor to Mexico can fail to recognize the omnipresence of street vendors, selling products ranging from fruits and vegetables to prepared food and clothes. The vendors compose a large part of the informal economy, which altogether represents at least 30 percent of Mexico’s economically active population. Neither taxed nor monitored by the government, the informal sector is the fastest growing economic sector in the world. In Street Democracy Sandra C. Mendiola García explores the political lives and economic significance of this otherwise overlooked population, focusing on the radical street vendors during the 1970s and 1980s in Puebla, Mexico’s fourth-largest city. She shows how t...
"Teresa Lozano Long Institute of Latin American Studies."
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