Belice: una historia olvidada

En México, en 1992 fue reformado el artículo 27 constitucional. A la par, fueron emitidas leyes secundarias, entre éstas la Ley Agraria, con la innovación de permitir la entrada de actores privados en la explotación y aprovechamiento de tierras, aguas, bosques y minerales. Sin embargo, el sustancial cambio legal que supuso la apertura de las tierras ejidales a un mercado formal no generó las transformaciones de la seguridad jurídica que desde la lógica neoinstitucional se esperaban. El mercado formal de tierras ejidales es pequeño y contrasta con el amplio mercado irregular...

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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...

A lo largo de la historia ha habido aspiraciones a una sociedad mejor, incluso perfecta. Tenemos utopías imaginadas por filósofos, poetas, reformadores sociales, arquitectos y artistas. Este libro es la historia ilustrada de una idea: la búsqueda de la sociedad ideal. Gregory Claeys, destacado estudioso del tema, analiza la influencia de la idea de la utopía en la historia, la literatura, el arte, la arquitectura y el pensamiento político y religioso. En su exploración de estos mundos ideales tienen un papel fundamental los mitos de la creación, los arquetipos del cielo y el infierno,...