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La investigaci n sobre la complicada y a menudo dif cil relaci n entre M xico y los Estados Unidos parte de la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII y llega casi hasta nuestros d as. Los autores, estudiosos de reconocido prestigio en el mundo acad mico mexicano, han tomado en consideraci n una amplia bibliograf a sobre el tema y su obra resulta de gran inter s.

Joseph de la Barrera expones en su Dedicatoria a la condesa de Paredes el proposito del festin con el que el convento de Clarisas dispuso la ceremonia de bienvenida a la nueva Virreina: hazer ostentativo alarde de sus carinos y publica demostracion de sus afectos. Aun resuenan los ecos de las festivas aclamaciones de su felice entrada, por lo que los arcos disenados por Sor Juana y Siguenza son el referente sobre el que Barrera justifica la validez del ofrecimiento de las Clarisas. El relator se confiesa admirado a la metrica plausible armonia con que tantos canoros cisnes del mexicano...