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Temas tratados: la situación política de México entre 1928 y 1934; la formación del sistema de dominación que consolidó el triunfo del grupo revolucionario y evitó las crisis del pasado; la creación del Partido Nacional Revolucionario y la aparición del "jefe máximo" de la revolución.

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

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Historians have largely ignored the western city; although a number of specialized studies have appeared in recent years, this volume is the first to assess the importance of the urban frontier in broad fashion. Lawrence H. Larsen studies the process of urbanization as it occurred in twentyfour major frontier towns. Cities examined are Kansas City, St. Joseph, Lincoln, Omaha, Atchison, Lawrence, Leavenworth, Topeka, Austin, Dallas, Galveston, Houston, San Antonio, Denver, Leadville, Salt Lake city, Virginia City, Portland, Los Angeles, Oakland, Sacramento, San Francisco, San Jose, and Stockton.Larsen bases his analysis of western cities and their problems on social statistics obtained from the 1880 United States Census. This census is particularly important because it represents the first time that the federal government regarded the United States as an urban nation. The author is the first scholar to do a comprehensive investigation of this important source.This volume gives an accurate portrayal of western urban life. Here are promoters and urban planners crowding as many lots as possible into tracts in the middle of vast, uninhabited valleys. Here are streets clogged with filth because of inadequate sanitation systems; people crowded together in packed quarters with only fledgling police and fire services. Here, too, is the advance of nineteenthcentury technology: gaslights, telephones, interurbans.Most important, this study dispels the misconceptions concerning the process of exploration, settlement, and growth of the urban west. City building in the American West, despite popular mythology, was not a response to geographic or climatic conditions. It was the extension of a process perfected earlier, the promotion and building of sites—no matter how undesirable—into successful localities. Uncontrolled capitalism led to disorderly development that reflected the abilities of individual entrepreneurs rather than most other factors. The result was the establishment of a society that mirrored and made the same mistakes as those made earlier in the rest of the country.

West (U.S.) --- History --- History of the Americas

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During the boisterous days of American Prohibition, the Lake Chaplain region of New York State teemed with bootleggers, all hoping to make a fast buck smuggling Canadian liquor across the border. In this lively account of that era, Everest’s sources—smugglers, local people, and customs officials—recall that if there was a way to smuggle booze, whether by road, rail, or water, it was tried at Rouses Point, New York, the site of a busy U.S. customs station on the Montreal-New York “Rum Trail.” The Temperance and Prohibition movements in New York State, controversial federal legislation, its enforcement, the smugglers’ ingenuity, their rivalries, the profits, smuggling goods into Canada, the cars, female smugglers, illegal aliens, Canadian breweries, the speakeasies in New York City, the chases, the captures, the courts, and even the weather – all are part of the story. The generation who lived through those raucous days will remember that this is indeed how it was. A map, sixteen illustrations, and regional ballads are included.

Prohibition --- Smuggling --- Contraband trade --- Crime --- Customs administration --- Liquor laws --- Temperance --- Law and legislation --- History of the Americas

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Monumental investigacion sobre la historia laboral en la Nueva Espana, que hace especial enfasis en el trabajo obligatorio o voluntario de los indios. La obra expone la evolucion general de las instituciones laborales en cada periodo, el examen de cada clase de servicio y del patrono al que se destina, y presenta cuadros con informacion sobre precios donde se aprecia el valor de los jornaleros en cada etapa. Este trabajo se vuelve entonces imprescindible para la historia de las bases de la vida social en la Nueva Espana.

History of Latin America --- anno 1500-1799 --- Peru --- Indians of South America --- Encomiendas (Latin America) --- Indians, Treatment of --- Legal status, laws, etc. --- History of the Americas

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United States Local History --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Southern States --- Intellectual life --- ca. 1600-1775 --- Southern States--Intellectual life--Colonial period