¡Chile tiene fiesta!

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...

Isidre Ambrós, corresponsal de La Vanguardia en Pekín y Hong Kong durante una década, se sumerge en una sociedad muy reservada ante los extranjeros, como es la china, para narrar el perfil menos conocido del pais que aspira a desbancar a Estados Unidos del liderazgo planetario. A través de sus viajes, cual Marco Polo del siglo XXI, por toda la vasta geografía china, conversa con ciudadanos de toda condición que nos ayudan a comprender la evolución y el día a día de una sociedad de un funcionamiento muy distinto a la nuestra: al mismo tiempo que está controlada férreamente por el...

Entre las minorías demográficas que señalan la contradicción inherente a las sociedades de ideología etnocéntrica, la de los gitanos es la más conocida, a través de los clichés literarios, pero también por los prejuicios que se han utilizado para caracter

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