Historia escondida del Uruguay vol. II

Imbuidos del ambiente de la Guerra Fría, las fuerzas armadas latinoamericanas comenzarán tempranamente (finalizando la década del cincuenta del siglo XX) a familiarizarse con las nuevas formas en que se manifestarán los conflictos militares, y sobre todo políticos, en diversas partes del orbe. Así, las experiencias de Francia en Indochina y Argelia, o la de Estados Unidos en Vietnam, serán interiorizadas como batallas eminentemente políticas, en donde el factor decisivo ya no será ni la superioridad tecnológica ni la humana en el campo de batalla, sino que el factor preponderante y...

Valiosa síntesis interpretativa en la que se intenta comprender la manera paradójica en que reaccionaron los patriotas españoles a la abdicación de la familia real en mayo de 1808 y a la ocupación del país por las tropas napoleónicas. La organización de los patriotas, que aprovecharon en beneficio propio determinados conceptos de la Revolución francesa, les condujo a cuestionar de forma radical el sistema político de la monarquía y provocó cambios asimismo radicales en las relaciones de poder entre estos nuevos ciudadanos, siempre con el trasfondo de la guerra contra el invasor....

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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...