From Mexico originally appeared in German in 1878 and since then was not available in our language. This is a work of German geographer Friedrich Ratzel, the eyes of a naturalist representative of the second half of the nineteenth century. Technically its author has been guided by the rigor of a very close look at the photographer, but also that of the painter has tried to capture in writing, as in a canvas-covered landscapes and scenes captured in his memory. Expression and prose narrative paintings are driven by the lure of realism, enhanced by the invention of the photographic eye. A prominent naturalist has its roots in the eighteenth century began to establish the analogy between the evolution of natural and human species, in particular Leibniz, when asked for the unity underlying the diversity of species and human races ._x000D_
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From there Ratzel reflects on topics that may remain in place today: the enormous importance that Mexico has the momentum and the "energy" (a notion of taste of the nineteenth century to examine the phenomena of global geopolitics) of the Germanic-American and Chinese. No hiding travelers the importance of Mexico among Latin American nations because of its racial diversity and environmental Mexico Should wake the slumber of tradition eventually progress', wondered Ratzel._x000D_
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The reports and reports of Ratzel comprise a range of October 16, 1874, when Ratzel landed at the port of Acapulco from San Francisco until April 1875 when he embarked in Veracruz for Cuba, and returned soon after to his homeland in June, 1875. He was in Me-xico total of about five months. It seems he had a special interest in crossing the Isthmus of Tehuantepec. His tour coincides with the installation as interim president Sebastián Lerdo de Tejada, the successor of Benito Juarez. Lerdo had distinguished himself by giving constitutional form to the Reform Laws on September 25, 1873. In Ratzel's book published in Germany in 1878 the place left by Juarez and Lerdo was already occupied by another of the leaders of the Reformation, Porfirio Diaz.