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A esta historia de México se le ha llamado "general", primero, por ser completa, pues va desde la llegada del hombre al continente americano hasta nuestros días, y segundo, porque se ofrece al lector general, o sea, al que no necesita una preparación especial para leerla y apreciarla. Queda en manos de un lector que, hoy quizá como nunca, apetece conocer y entender nuestro pasado, entre otras cosas, porque siente la necesidad de apreciar con mayor seguridad el presente y el porvenir inmediato del país.

Mexico --- History. --- History of the Americas

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This ambitious book examines the constitutional and legal doctrines of the antislavery movement from the eve of the American Revolution to the Wilmot Proviso and the 1848 national elections. Relating political activity to constitutional thought, William M. Wiecek surveys the antislavery societies, the ideas of their individual members, and the actions of those opposed to slavery and its expansion into the territories. He shows that the idea of constitutionalism has popular origins and was not the exclusive creation of a caste of lawyers. In offering a sophisticated examination of both sides of the argument about slavery, he not only discusses court cases and statutes, but also considers a broad range of "extrajudicial" thought--political speeches and pamphlets, legislative debates and arguments.

Slavery --- Constitutional history --- Law and legislation --- History. --- History of the Americas --- Law - U.S. --- Law, Politics & Government --- Constitutional Law - U.S. --- History

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This volume provides the first account of the pioneering efforts at sex reform in America from the Gilded Age to the Progressive era. Despite the atmosphere of extreme prudery and the existence of the Comstock laws after the Civil War, a group of radicals emerged to attack conventional beliefs about sex, from traditional marriage to women’s chattel status in society. These men and women had in common a direct, unrespectable, iconoclastic style. They put forth outrageous journalism and had a penchant for martyrdom and for using the courts to publicize their ideologies.From rare and generally unknown sources, Hal D. Sears pieced together the story of the sex radicals and their surprising ideas. Moses Harman, a minister turned abolitionist and freethinker, is a central figure in the narrative. His Lucifer, the Light Bearer, the only journal of sexual liberty published from the early 1880s to 1907, was dedicated to free love, sex education, women’s rights, and related causes. To a great degree Harman’s publication defines the limits of social dissent in the late nineteenth century.Other members of the sex radical circle included E. B. Foote, a medical doctor who made a fortune with a home medical book crammed with sex information; Edwin Walker and Lillian Harman, who became a cause célèbre among radicals when their jailhouse honeymoon in Kansas challenged the right of the state to regulate marriage; Elmina Slenker, who promoted a theory of sexual energy sublimation and the idea that women were the superior sex; and Lois Waisbrooker, Dora Forster, Lillie White, and other feminists who, almost a century ago, taught and preached the very ideas we hear today in the women’s movement.Of course, all these people got into trouble with the law, mostly through the machinations of their archvillain, Anthony Comstock. Sears examines Comstock’s powers of postal censorship and describes Comstock’s personal vendettas against sexual dissenters, particularly the free love philosopher Ezra Heywood. He gives a legal history of obscenity and explains the sex radicals’ significance in the emergence of obscenity law.Although the sex radicals attest the important reform vitality of provincial culture in late nineteenthcentury America, until now they have been almost ignored by historians. Those who have studied sex radicalism at all, apart from its communitarian and sectarian aspects, have viewed it merely as a subsidiary of the more respectable feminist movement. In this book Sears gives careful consideration to the links between sex radicalism and spiritualism, feminism, anticlericalism, anarchism, and the freethought movement. He presents sex radicalism as a separate and unique movement which illuminates new reaches of the Victorian landscape and establishes a tradition for presentday liberation trends.

Feminism --- Free love --- Radicalism --- Sexual ethics. --- History. --- Marriage --- Sexual ethics --- Concubinage --- Unmarried couples --- Sex --- Sex ethics --- Sexual behavior, Ethics of --- Ethics --- Extremism, Political --- Ideological extremism --- Political extremism --- Political science --- Moral and ethical aspects --- History of the Americas

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A esta historia de México se le ha llamado "general", primero, por ser completa, pues va desde la llegada del hombre al continente americano hasta nuestros días y, segundo, porque se ofrece al lector general, o sea, al que no necesita una preparación especial para leerla y apreciarla. El cometido de este cuarto y último tomo de la Historia General de México, es darnos a conocer los acontecimientos que convirtieron un país 'semifeudal' en el México contemporáneo. Así, Berta Ulloa, describe el período de 'lucha armada' (1911-1920), tan difícil, a veces de entender por las pugnas internas de hombres y partidos. Lorenzo Meyer, a su vez, presenta, en dos ensayos consecutivos, 'el primer tramo del camino', es decir, la consolidación de las instituciones a partir del momento en que Obregón toma el poder hasta el decisivo sexenio de Lázaro Cárdenas; en el segundo ensayo intitulado 'la encrucijada', muestra como el crecimiento económico del país a partir de 1940, unido a la tranquilidad política, va a permitir que México entre defiitivamente en la era industrial con todas las consecuencias propias de ese fenómeno. Cierran la obra los trabajos de Jorge Alberto Manrique y Carlos Monsivaís, dedicado el primero al 'proceso de las artes' plásticas de 1910 a 1970, en tanto que el segundo, cuyo modesto título es 'notas sobre la cultura mexicana en el siglo XX', cubre los campos de la poesía, la novela, la filosofía, la pintura, el cine y el teatro con la gracia irónica a que se nos tiene acostumbrados.

Mexico. --- Mexique --- Mexico --- Histoire. --- History. --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique (Country) --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- מקסיקו --- メキシコ --- History of the Americas

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A esta historia de México se le ha llamado "general", primero, por ser completa, pues va desde la llegada del hombre al continente americano hasta nuestros días y, segundo, porque se ofrece al lector general, o sea, al que no necesita una preparación especial para leerla y apreciarla. Este tomo estudia los tres turbulentos siglos de dominación española. Se ocupa de ella varios especialistas: Alejandra Moreno Toscano examina el siglo de la comnquista, y presenta el asedio y la caída de Tecnochtitlan como un relato en el que alternan las voces españolas y las indígenas . Andrés Lira y Luis Muro muestran el vasto panorama del siglo XVII, desde el paisaje y la integración del país hasta las fricciones y alzamientos, sin olvidar las empresas económicas y las transformaciones sociales que marcan este siglo, quiza el menos estudiado hasta ahora. Enrique Florescano e Isabel Gil Sánchez hacen un penetrante análisis de las causas y efectos de las reformas borbónicas, y de las condiciones peculiares a la Nueva España, revelando la inestabilidad social y el desajuste político del siglo XVII. Luis Villoro, con gran claridad analítica, describe la revolución de independencia, los problemas que trató de solucionar, la guerra misma, el Congreso Constituyente y la consumación del movimiento. Cierra el volumen un magistral estudio de Jorge Alberto Manrique - "Del barroco a la ilustración"- que nos da, a través del arte, un cuadro vívido y exacto de la vida que peninsulares, criollos e indios, castas y 'gente menuda', llevaron en las opulentas cuidades novohispanas.

Mexico. --- Mexique --- Mexico --- Histoire. --- History. --- Anáhuac --- Estados Unidos Mexicanos --- Maxico --- Méjico --- Mekishiko --- Meḳsiḳe --- Meksiko --- Meksyk --- Messico --- Mexique (Country) --- República Mexicana --- Stany Zjednoczone Meksyku --- United Mexican States --- United States of Mexico --- מקסיקו --- メキシコ --- History of the Americas --- Mèxic --- Història