México, política y coraje

Selection of the papers presented at the XXIII Encuentro Nacional de Investigadores del Pensamiento Novohispano in Zacatecas in 2010.

Articles and letters by Cosío Villegas and other scholars, previously published in various periodicals, discussing the Mexican Revolution, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional, and Armando R. Pareyón Azpeitia.

"Se trata del problema de la expansión, la organización político-administrativa, militar y económica, la proyección demográfica y las tensiones que se originaron al norte de Nueva España."--Prólogo.

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...