España en el corazón

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...

El ritual jugó un papel tan determinante en el mundo Barroco que su estudio nos permite aproximarnos a su pluralidad y espectacularidad. Bien conocido en la preservación de la Semana Santa ibérica, hay otras formas rituales que han desaparecido, sobre todo aquellas que tenían un sentido político, cívico y militar, y no han dejado apenas memoria a pesar de ser generales a la mayor parte de las grandes ciudades europeas. La colección Vestigios de un mismo Mundo comienza con un cuaderno dedicado precisamente e ese mundo del ritual militar urbano, y lo hace confrontando dos elementos bien...

Santiago Santa Cruz, el Comandante Santiago, médico de profesión, relata su experiencia guerrillera en la Organización del Pueblo en Armas (ORPA) de Guatemala, y luego en el Frente Unitario de la Unidad Revolucionaria Nacional Guatemalteca (URNG), a partir de sus libretas de campaña y sus recuerdos personales. El resultado es una detallada historia político-militar del movimiento revolucionario en Guatemala de 1980 a 2001, fechas que abarcan su apogeo y su declive, desde el momento que sigue al triunfo de la revolución sandinista en Nicaragua hasta la firma de los acuerdos de paz.

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