Corpus Christi

Study of archaeological site in Veracruz and the Totonac civilization. Emphasis on interpretation of the imagery.

"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.

Un estudio económico de las regiones geográficas presupone el estudio de la población consumidora: producción y consumo necesitan que se establezcan relaciones de comercio, de información, de inversión, las cuales se localizan en lugares precisos. El autor hace una lectura crítica de los trabajos consagrados a la cuestión y trata de entresacar de ellos, así como de una observación directa, lo que significan las regiones y la vida de relación que se organiza en su interior.

The book edited by researchers Thomas Calvo and Paulina Machuca - both members of the project "Proyecto Vencer la distancia" (Overcoming the distance) - comprises the participation of fourteen specialists in the discipline of social sciences. "If the Philippines and Mexico had had very close relationships in the two and a half centuries that the Manila Galleon was sailing (1565-1815), the relations diluted when Mexico chose Independence and the Philippines continued under Spanish domain until 1898. It was precisely these years of disagreement that we were interested in: like all the periods...