Estado y desarrollo

"Translation into Spanish of an important early-18th-century report on the social and economic conditions of New Spain by a Frenchman at the service of Spain. The report offered many suggestions on improving the trade and economy of New Spain"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

A series of narratives based on the history of a hacienda in San Gertrudis, Chihuahua during the Mexican revolution, with focus on the incursion of rebel troops and the reaction of rural residents. The author (1944) is a native of San Gertrudis.

Garc a Cant es un historiador fuera de lo com n, sus textos van siempre m s all de la mera narraci n o del registro ex nime de los hechos. Son una exploraci n cr tica de la memoria hist rica mexicana; significan el rescate de una tradici n viva, y la puesta en cuesti n de las visiones hist ricas inertes: ni historicismo ni ret rica; Garc a Cant prefiere y practica la literatura pol tica como estilo del historiador.

Venegas is recommending D. Diego Fernandez Peredo as Captain of the 3rd Company of the 1st Battalion which is newly formed and composed of patriots loyal to Ferdinand VII.