附註:Includes bibliographical references (pages 219-232) and index.
Education and entropy in Bernal D?iaz del Castillo's War to stop time -- Compromised free markets in El Periquillo Sarniento : teachers, albureros, and other shouters -- Alexander von Humboldt's work on Mexico : cultural allegory, and the limits of vision -- Jos?e Vasconcelos and the necessities of failure -- The threats of collapse in Cambio de piel (or Fuentes the frail) -- Guillermo G?omez-Pe?na : bordering on madness and performing liminality -- General Santa Anna's leg and other failings.
