Impresiones de México

This single volume reference resource offers students, scholars, and general readers alike an in-depth background on Mexico, from the complexity of its pre-Columbian civilizations ...

William O. Jenkins (1878–1963) was a Tennessee farm boy who ventured to Mexico in search of fortune and became that country’s wealthiest and most infamous industrialist. Dropping o...

James Orton fue un célebre naturalista y explorador norteamericano que visitó el Ecuador a finales de la década de 1860. Se trata de un auténtico científico viajero, cuyas contribu...

Trilogía del Lago Helado es una película de Gustavo Fontán, de cuyo proceso de realización nació este libro. No se trata de un diario de filmación en el sentido estricto; no recorr...

This chapter analyses the political economy of continuity in Mexico. High levels of patenting and accentuated transnational dominance of the pharmaceutical industry, both functions...

Mexico under the dictator Porfirio Díaz bore some resemblance to the postbellum South, in its social and racial hierarchies, but what drew Jenkins was Mexico’s rapid industrializat...