EL ALMA DEL VIENTO

From reviews of the Spanish edition: “Meyer’s perceptive commentary on Mexican power politics presents new insights into the petroleum lobbies in Mexico City and Washington. With unbiased empathy he shows the validity of Mexico’s complaints about foreigners’ deriving an overabundance of profit from a nonrenewable natural resource. He understands United States history and never abuses his license to criticize.” —Hispanic American Historical Review “This useful addition to the literature on twentieth-century Mexican–United States diplomatic relations is a scholarly work, worthy...

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Sobre la base mas amplia posible de extractos de documentos, el lector de esta obra hallara una guia de la historia del trabajo indigena en el virreinato peruano. La extension geografica es considerable: comprende las costas, la cordillera y el oriente del Peru, propiamente dicho, y la region llamada entonces el Alto Peru que es parte ahora de la Republica de Bolivia. En cuanto al tiempo, cada uno de los tres tomos abarca, respectivamente, los siglos XVI, XVII y XVIII, con inclusion, en el ultimo tomo, de los primeros anos del siglo XIX hasta llegar a la supresion de la mitra, decretada por...

Reseña de la producción historiográfica en torno al Segundo Imperio mexicano, este libro recoge las distintas formas en que se ha abordado la aventura imperial en momentos particulares y desde perspectivas varias.