Background
Justo Sierra was born in Campeche, Yucatán, on January 26, 1848. His father, Justo Sierra O'Rielly, was one of Yucatán's foremost intellectuals.
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Las memorias del diplomático Justo Sierra - poco hombres tan sonoros como este -, relatadas a Fernando Haftye, - pocos hombres de tan elevada estatura y profesionalismo por estos rumbos - son concernientes a la etapa que vivió como amigo y colaborador del Presidente Adolfo Lopes Mateos. Son recuerdos, que mas que dar a conocer la vida, del autor, tienden a exaltar la memoria del Primer Mandatario ya fallecido. Tienen el merito de ser remembranzas de primera mano; también de haber sido escritas en forma sencilla sin desdeñar los autores el sentido del humor - suprema manifestación de inteligencia - de don Adolfo Lopez Mateos en algún pasaje del libro. Los raudos automóviles, el boxeo, los toros (con decir, que Joaquin Radriguez "Cagancho" el gitano de los ojos verdes, fue asesor en Palacio Nacional, esta dicho todo!) ocupan buenas paginas de un relato hecho, antes que todo, con la pasión que suede acentuar la amistad.
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Excerpt from Historia Patria Este primer librito contendrá las materias de la ense nanza histórica obligatoria en el tercer año, es decir, según la ley Vigente: los sucesos uotables de la Antiguedad mexica na, la Conquista y el Período colonial. He seguido el plan que en obritas análogas ha adoptado con tan buén éxito M. La visse, que no sólo es uno de los profesores de historia más notables de nuestra época, en Brancia, el primero quizás des pués de la desaparición de Renan, Taine y Coulanges, sino un verdadero educador nacional en toda la fuerza de la ex presión. Pero acomodándonos a los consejos de pedagogos eminentes extranjeros y nacionales, hemos sustituido los re latos de Lavisse con pequeñas biografías. Creemos haber con. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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Are the Mexican people the children of Moctezuma or the children of Cortés? This question, long the central problem of Mexican historians, Justo Sierra answered by saying, "The Mexicans are the sons of the two peoples, of the two races to this we owe our soul." Because Sierra recognized the dual parentage, he was able to view his country's history as an evolutionary process. Formed in both the indigenous past and the colonial past, the Mexican people, after three hundred years of slow and painful gestation, were finally born with the arrival of Independence. They came of age when the Reform, the Republic, and the nation achieved a single identity. This classical synthesis, written on the eve of the Mexican Revolution, gave direction to the generation that furnished the Revolution's intellectual leaders. Although the author was Secretary of Public Instruction in the dictatorial regime of Porfirio Díaz, he was the first historian to show sympathy for the plight of the masses, and his book ends with the warning that political evolution has lost its way unless the result is freedom. As Edmundo O'Gorman points out in an important essay on Mexican historiography, written especially for this edition, Sierra was also the first to write a history of his nation in a sincere endeavor to get at the truth, instead of shaping his account to prove a thesis or to preach some political faith. And yet, his work "owes its originality and its lasting merit to his vigorous interpretation of Mexico's history in the light of his convictions, of his keen insight, even of his fears." Though the chapters on the pre-Columbian Indian have been rendered obsolete by later archeological discoveries, the rest of the history is still valid and needs only to be brought up to date.
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Este libro fue la primera obra tematica de historia de Mexico escrita en el siglo XIX por un colectivo de 12 autores. Uno de los rasgos distintivos de esta obra radica en las reflexiones de los autores sobre la idea de nacion; la cual hacen una sintesis de la historia politica, de la organizacion administrativa y militar, del estado economico de la federacion mexicana; de sus adelantos en el orden intelectual; de su estructura territorial y del desarrollo de su poblacion, asi como de los medios de comunicacion.
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(Pocas historias de Campeche resumen de manera tan precisa...)
Pocas historias de Campeche resumen de manera tan precisa y acertada el proceso de surgimiento, formación y consolidación de este estado. Con objetividad y datos verdaderamente curiosos, muchos hasta hoy desconocidos, el autor consigue presentar una excelente síntesis de la vida de la entidad, desde la época de los cacicazgos hasta los años actuales. A través del texto, el lector adivinará la exuberancia y prodigalidad de la tierra campechana.
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(Educador, poeta, historiador, cronista, crítico, cuentist...)
Educador, poeta, historiador, cronista, crítico, cuentista, Justo Sierra dejó la huella de su magisterio en varias generaciones, aunque la impronta inmediata de su pensamiento fue decisiva para los escritores del Ateneo de la Juventud. En las páginas de este libro, se intenta trazar el retrato de un hombre portentoso, divulgar su obra literaria, adentrarnos en su tiempo, en su pensamiento, en la aventura intelectual de su vida.
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(Evolución política del pueblo mexicano. Justo Sierra. Bib...)
Evolución política del pueblo mexicano. Justo Sierra. Biblioteca Ayacucho. Número 21.
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Justo Sierra was born in Campeche, Yucatán, on January 26, 1848. His father, Justo Sierra O'Rielly, was one of Yucatán's foremost intellectuals.
Young Sierra studied in Campeche and Mexico City, receiving a law degree at the age of 23. In 1910 he sponsored the First National Congress of Primary Education and revived the National University of Mexico, which had splintered into separate colleges.
Elected to the Mexican Congress in 1872, he quickly gained a reputation as a formidable debater. He served 2 years on the Supreme Court prior to his designation as subsecretary of justice and public education in 1902.
In 1905 he was appointed minister of public education and fine arts, a post which he held until the fall of the regime of General Porfirio Díaz in 1911. Sierra insisted that educational progress parallel economic growth, both to train the populace in the requisite skills and to preserve the national identity in the face of an influx of foreign capital and methodology. Consequently, he stressed science and Mexican history in his curriculum.
In 1910 he sponsored the First National Congress of Primary Education and revived the National University of Mexico, which had splintered into separate colleges. One of the foremost propagandists of his day, Sierra edited and wrote regular columns for several newspapers.
Although he attempted to synthesize the broad sweep of human development for the general reader in his Historia general (1896), most of his volumes focused on Mexican history. His interpretation was liberal, and he contended that Mexico had experienced only two revolutions worthy of the name: the Independence movement and the War of the Reform (1854 - 1867).
In México: su evolución social (1902), Sierra argued that the Díaz era was the culmination of Mexican development. He defended Benito Juárez in Juárez: su obra y su tiempo (1905), contending that his era of liberal government constituted the pivotal period of Mexican history. Sierra's most famous work is La evolución política del pueblo mexicano (1900-1902; The Political Evolution of the Mexican Nation, 1946), intended as a "popular synthesis. " In this volume he applied the prevailing evolutionary theories to Mexican history, emphasizing the importance of the liberal revolution of the mid-19th century. After the collapse of the Díaz regime in 1911, Sierra was appointed ambassador to Spain.
He died in Madrid on September 13, 1912.
Sierra is best known for his voluminous historical works. As one of Mexico's leading liberal historians and as minister of education, he was responsible for considerable educational reform and expansion during the first decade of the 20th century. His texts on pre-revolutionary Mexico continued to be used in Mexican public schools even after the Mexican Revolution. President Álvaro Obregón's Minister of Public Education, José Vasconcelos republished Sierra's Historia Patria for use in schools.
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Maintaining an independent intellectual stance, he considered himself primarily a humanist.
Though a member of the Díaz Cabinet, he did not hesitate to criticize the regime and never fully accepted the positivism that constituted the official ideology. He condemned the Mexican leaders of the early portion of that century as petty individuals seeking only self-aggrandizement. Maintaining an independent intellectual stance, he considered himself primarily a humanist.
