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Mexico's mandarins: crafting a power elite for the twenty-first century
No full textThis groundbreaking study marks the culmination of over twenty years of research by one of this country's most prominent Mexico scholars. Roderic Ai Camp provides a detailed, comprehensive examination of Mexico's power elite - their political power, societal influence, and the crucial yet often overlooked role mentoring plays in their rise to the top. In the course of this book, he traces the careers of approximately four hundred of the country's most notable politicians, military officers, clergy, intellectuals, and capitalists. Thoroughly researched and drawn from in-depth interviews with some of Mexico's most powerful players, Mexico's Mandarins provides insight into the machinations of Mexican leadership and an important glimpse into the country's future as it steps onto the global stage
Reseña de: Roderic Ai Camp, Mexican political biographies - 1935-1975, Tucson, The University of Arizona Press, 1976, xxviu + 468 pp.
No full textRoderic Ai Camp: Mexican political biographies — 1935-1975, Tucson, The University of Arizona Press, 1976, XXVIII, 468 pp
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Digitalizing Modern Mexican History, 1980-2012
No full textSince the digital revolution in the 1990s, scholars are increasingly debating the use of digital technologies in their research and data dissemination. This new era of scholarship, "digital humanities", has promoted the use of data visualization, info-graphics, data animation and interactive maps to promote and make visible scholarship. This thesis uses digital technologies to explore the possibilities for digitalizing modern Mexican history. By using Mexican historical events as case studies, it argues that data visualizations promote the accessibility of scholarly research and a more popular history, while remaining transparent
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