The journal Relaciones. Estudios de Historia y Sociedad publishes original, previously unpublished, peer-reviewed (double blind) studies in History, the Social Sciences and the Humanities, including articles, essays and analyses of important historical documents, as well as book reviews, that contribute to enhancing our understanding of Mexico and its realities in both historical and contemporary contexts. Opening windows for comparison, Relaciones examines topics concerning Mesoamerica, New Spain and Mexico in relation to the rest of the Americas, Europe and other areas of the world. The journal maintains two key axes, one theoretical-methodological, the other thematic. The first seeks to nourish the multidisciplinary connections that allow us to comprehend complex social and historical processes from diverse perspectives; the second underscores the relation between political and cultural traditions or modernities in multiple, interwoven domains that form part of the process of the social formation of universes both past and present. Relaciones is published for a broad academic audience that includes researchers, professors, students and all those interested in the Social and Human Sciences and related disciplines.

Relaciones. Estudios de historia y sociedad is a trimestral publication (winter, spring, summer, autumn) of El Colegio de Michoacán, A.C. (CPI-CONACYT), founded in 1980 by Luis González y González. The printed version consists of 750 copies with separates (ISSN 0185-3929). The open-access electronic version makes all the journal’s past and contemporary content available to interested readers. It can be consulted at www.revistarelaciones.com (ISSN-e 2448-7554). Relaciones normally publishes studies in Spanish, but accepts texts in Portuguese, French and English with the option to elaborate translations or publish them in the original language. The journal is publicly-funded by the Mexican government through project “E003. Scientific investment, development and innovation”, included in the annual Budget of El Colegio de Michoacán. It is designed specifically to disseminate and diffuse scientific knowledge.

Relaciones. Estudios de historia y sociedad is included in the following Indexes: Índice de Revistas Mexicanas de Investigación Científica y Tecnológica (Conacyt since 1997); Clase (Citas Latinoamericanas en Ciencias Sociales y Humanidades); Dialnet; Latindex (Sistema Regional de Información en línea para Revistas Científicas de América Latina, el Caribe, España y Portugal); HAPI (Hispanic American Periodicals Index); Redalyc (Red de Revistas Científicas de América Latina y El Caribe); and SciELO-México (Scientific Electronic Library Online).