The demographic impact of the 1918 flu pandemic is measured by analyzing the death certificates of the Civil Registry in Uruapan, together with the number of lives claimed by epidemics, endemics, and violence. Death rates during normal periods are also examined, with the impact being disaggregated by age group and sex. Several waves of flu took pla...
José Elguero Videgaray was one of the leading Mexican Hispanists in the first half of the 20th century. A lawyer by training, although a journalist by profession and inclination, he contributed numerous articles to the most prominent newspapers of the time such as El País and Excélsior. Refusing to write what others ordered, he was frequently exile...
In the repertoire of contemporary social movements in urban space, one can increasingly find activities of artistic and cultural character. The main determinant of these activities is their originality in conveying shared values and political claims. Street art and murals belonging to it are included in the activities of social movements. Murals, w...
El artículo tiene por propósito revisar la historia del surgimiento de Mexicali a partir de evidencia no contemplada por explicaciones convencionales. Se analizaron sus primeros 12 años de existencia, entre 1903 y 1915, para establecer un revisionismo en escala microscópica y así observar de qué manera rebeliones y continuos atentados criminales ja...
The main target of this investigation will be analyzing the relationship of the Mexican country with the educational system on the post-revolutionary period; the paper analyzes the educational guidelines and reflect the way this conect with the main ideologies of that frame of time. Also the paper tries to expose the fundamental role of the educati...
This paper analyses the relationship between text and context in the case of José Donoso’s Coronación(1957) and its two film adaptations, directed by Sergio Olhovich (Mexico, 1976) and Silvio Caiozzi (Chile, 2000), respectively. It observes the ways in which the same plotline connects to the context of the mid-20th century modernization process in ...
Published in Annals of the Náprstek Museum
This article aims to describe the personality of the talented Czech linguist and distinctive philosopher Alois Richard Nykl, with a special focus on his repeated stays in Mexico as well as his reflection of the post-revolutionary developments there. The unpublished travelogue “Present-Day Mexico”, complemented with the author’s short texts and othe...
In the novels Los de abajo (1915) by Mariano Azuela, El Señor Presidente (1946) by Miguel Ángel Asturias, and Un día en la vida (1980) by Manlio Argueta, the opposition between marginal social classes and the State represented by power structures constitute the core of the narration. This article traces in the three novels the narrative constructio...
The Constituent Congress of 1916-1917 discussed an extensive program to secularize Mexican society, through which delegates attempted to eliminate the clergy’s political and social influence. The assembly soon divided into two broad coalitions. One defended individual guarantees and the stiffening of Reform Laws, while the other sought to transfor...
This article highlights one of the lesser known facets of General Salvador Alvarado: his role in the presidential succession of 1920. Through a review of unexplored sources such as the El Heraldo de México and El Monitor Republicano newspapers, it sheds light on the complexity and tension of the political context of the election. Alvarado modified ...
