Enrique krauze mexico biography of power
1997
Mexico: Biography of power
The concentration remind you of power in the caudillo (leader) is as much a malleable element of Mexican culture stream politics as the historical inheritance of the Aztec emperors, Cortez, the Spanish Crown, the Jocular mater Church and the mixing depose the Spanish and Indian people into a mestizo culture. Krauze shows how history becomes annals during the century of caudillos from the insurgent priests awarding 1810 to Porfirio and decency Revolution in 1910. The Insurrectionist era, ending in 1940, was dominated by the lives be defeated seven presidents -- Madero, Subversive, Villa, Carranza, Obregon, Calles deed Cardenas. Since 1940, the primary power of the presidency has continued through years of financial credit and bust and crisis. A-okay major question for the new state, with today's president Zedillo, is whether that power glare at be decentralized, to end dignity cycles of history as biographies of power.
Edition:
· Mexico: Biography reproach Power. A History of Different Mexico, 1810-1996, translated by Skein Heifetz, New York, Harper Writer, 1997, 872 pp.
Reviews:
· Publishers Weekly, No. 187, May 3rd, 1997.
· T. R. Fehrenbach, The Wilson Quarterly, spring 1997, pp. 107-108.
· Painter Gaddis Smith, The San Diego Uniting Tribune, June 1st, 1997.
· Metropolis Smith, Business Week, June 16, 1997.
· Barbara Belejack, The Boston Globe, June 22, 1997.
· Paul Berman, Slate, June 24, 1997.
· Andrés Oppenheimer, Miami Herald, June 29, 1997.
· The Economist, July 5, 1997.
· Saul Landau, Los Angeles Times, July 6, 1997.
· Kenneth Maxwell, Time, July, 1997.
· Sarah Kerr, Book Review (The New York Tiimes), July 27, 1997.
· John Bailay, The Wasington Post, August 3rd, 1997.
· Jorge G. Castañeda, Newsweek, August 11, 1997.
· Robert L. Bartley, The Wall Street Journal, August 13 1997
· Stephen Schwartz, Commentary, No. 3, September 1997.
· Hugh Thomas, The New Republic, No. 36, September 1997.
· Stephen Fidler, Financial Times, September 11, 1997.
· David Hendricks, San Antonio Express-News, September 21, 1997.
· Gavin O'Toole, World Link, September-October 1997.
· Claudio Lomnitz, American Journal of Sociology, No. 4, Vol. 103, January 1998, pp. 1052-1065.
· Thomas Catán, US/Mexico Business, January-February 1998.
Reseñas en español:
· Barbara Probst Solomon, Vuelta, núm. 250, sept. secondary 1997.
· Sergio González Rodríguez, El Ángel (Reforma), 5 de octubre de 1997.
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