Year: 1959
Type: paratext
Abstract: SCHOLARS UNDERTAKING to labor in the vineyard of twentieth century Mexican history soon discover that their sources are voluminous and dispersed. The task of investigatioll is rendered more difficult by the absence of catalogues and bibliographical guides which could expedite the localization of data. It is this writer's privilege to be able to report an effort, in which he is participating, to remedy in a measure this deficiency. Members of the Seminar on Contemporary Mexican History at El Colegio de Mexico have been engaged since July, 1957, in the localization and evaluation of the sources for the contemporary history of Mexico. The project is under the personal supervision of Lie. Daniel Cosfo Villegas, Director of El Colegio de Mexico, and has received support from the Rockefeller Foundation. The participating scholars have selected the period of the Mexican Revolution, defined as encompassing the years 1910-1940, as the focus of their program and have launched a three-pronged attack on the bibliographical problem. The goal is the creation of critical guides to books and pamphlets, to material in governmental and private archives, and to the literature contained in newspapers and periodicals. While there are a number of general bibliographies1 which include the period in question as well as certain specialized guides,2 the
Author: Stanley Robert Ross
Language: English
Subfield: Demography
Field: Social Sciences
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2321743678