Cultura y naturaleza en la montaña cantábrica

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...

Un exquisto análisis de la imagen del poder en el México virreinal durante los tres siglos que duró el dominio español, con profusión de imágenes en color y ,especialmente, de las series de retratos ubicados en el Palacio de los Virreyes y en el Ayuntamiento de México, que configuran una verdadera dinastía virreinal.

El Escorial is more than a monument to the zeal of Spain’s Catholicism; it is also a symbol of Spain at its imperial apogee. This imposing, granite edifice was built by King Philip II to celebrate Spain’s victory over the French at Saint-Quentin on August 10, 1557. Paid for with New-World gold, this sprawling monastery-palace is laid out in a vast grid of corridors and courtyards. At its heart is the austere Doric basilica of San Lorenzo el Real - beneath which are the remains of eleven Spanish kings, including Philip. The story of this fascinating, enduring symbol of Spain’s monarchy...

Compendio chronol?gico de los privilegios regulares de Indias, desde nuestro Sant?simo Padre Le?n X, creado el a?o 1513. hasta nuestro Sant?simo Padre Clemente XII (que Dios prospere), creado el a?o de 1730.