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El Zarco y Los bandidos de Río Frío en el siglo xix, los narcocorridos y el tortilla western de los hermanos Almada en el XX, y más recientemente la literatura, la plástica y la cinematografía de creadores como Élmer Mendoza, Luis Estrada y Teresa Margolles develan el sentido y la función social del crimen en México. A diferencia de autores como Fuentes, Revueltas y Paz, para quienes la violencia y lo terrible expresan cierta esencia de lo mexicano, Héctor Domínguez Ruvalcaba sostiene que la criminalidad ha de interpretarse a partir de la incompetencia del Estado y como forma de...

In this new telling of Mexico’s Second Empire and Louis Napoléon’s installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life. From 1861 to 1866, the French incorporated the armies of Austria, Belgium—including forces from Crimea to Egypt—to fight and subdue the regime of Mexico’s Benito Juárez during the time of the U.S. Civil War. France viewed this as a chance to seize Mexican territory in a moment they were convinced the...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la seretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

An exploration of how technology and best intentions collide in the heat of war In The Bomber Mafia, Malcolm Gladwell weaves together the stories of a Dutch genius and his homemade computer, a band of brothers in central Alabama, a British psychopath, and pyromaniacal chemists at Harvard to examine one of the greatest moral challenges in modern American history. Most military thinkers in the years leading up to World War II saw the airplane as an afterthought. But a small band of idealistic strategists had a different view. This "Bomber Mafia" asked: What if precision bombing could, just by...