1692 Motín de Indios

This book is a landmark in Mexican rural history. Activists and professional historians have long argued that the nineteenth-century privatization of indigenous communal lands was the original sin that laid the ground for the agrarian strife of the twentieth century. Many also claimed that this privatization drove the political mobilizations of indigenous peasants even before the Revolution. Nevertheless, very few historians have actually studied the process through which indigenous lands were privatized, and their findings have been published mostly as tantalizing but sketchy articles. In...

La estructura general de la Colección está delimitada por hechos específicos que marcan cambios y abren nuevas etapas en la dinámica de una Iglesia siempre presente en la historia de nuestra patria, el segundo tomo La Iglesia en tiempos de la Independencia comprende el período previo a la independencia, hasta que la Santa Sede reconoce la Independencia de Chile.

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La vida cotidiana en la época de Sor Juana. Alrededor de 1664 llegó a la ciudad de México Juana Ramírez de Asbaje; sus ojos de adolescente se asombraron ante el bullicio y la animación de la ciudad más importante del continente americano. Hacia esa época, la urbe novohispana se perfilaba también como la Atenas de América, pues numerosos intelectuales, científicos y artistas la habitaban. Un público culto leía libros gracias a las varias imprentas que tenía la ciudad, y los pintores, escultores y arquitectos llenaban el espacio urbano con hermosos edificios ricamente decorados. En ...