La presencia del pasado

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BBVA Bancomer, 2005 - History - 495 pages
Este libro narra, a trav s de ensayos e im genes, las diversas formas en que los pasados de M xico (el prehisp nico, el de la conquista, el de la evangelizaci n y el del virreinato) fueron vistos durante el apasionado y dram tico siglo XIX. Es una historia en la que figuran tanto los grandes personajes de la historia como los humildes h roes de la historiograf a, encargados de recuperar los escritos y documentos hist ricos de nuestro pa s. Las im genes que acompa an al texto muestran c mo dibujantes, caricaturistas, grabadores, ilustradores pintores y escultores del siglo XIX usaron el pasado como arma letal de la cr tica pol tica.

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Contents

Section 1
31
Section 2
38
Section 3
71
Copyright

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About the author (2005)

Enrique Krauze was born in Mexico City, Mexico on September 16, 1947. He received a bachelor's degree in industrial engineering from the UNAM and a doctorate in history from El Colegio de México. He is a documentary filmmaker, historian, and author. His works include a series of short biographies of Mexican leaders such as Emiliano Zapata, Francisco Villa and Porfirio Diaz, as well as the book Mexico: Biography of Power. He is the editor of a magazine called Letras Libres. He has written for several publications including the New York Times, The New Republic, Dissent, and The Washington Post.

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