Homenaje a Adolfo Sánchez Vázquez

Este cuarto volumen narra los cambios y vivencias del siglo XIX. Desligarse formalmente de Espana no provoco cambios inmediatos en la vestimenta ni en la comida y mucho menos en la mentalidad de los diversos sectores de la poblacion. Pero, al poco tiempo, la cultura material se fue transformando. Las casas se construian de distinta manera, otros ingredientes hicieron su aparicion en la cocina, la educacion se volvio mas utilitarista, la moral mas laica, el culto religioso mas de espacios privados. Bienes y vivencias antes desconocidos -la luz electrica o el transporte en tranvia- se volvieron ...

En 1968, Will Durant y Ariel Durant, tras concluir su monumental Historia de la civilización, colección aclamada por crítica y público, decidieron proporcionar a los lectores un compendio de su obra. Una descripción general de las tendencias y lecciones extraídas a lo largo de cinco mil años de historia mundial y examinadas desde doce perspectivas: geografía, biología, raza, carácter, moral, religión, economía, socialismo, gobierno, guerra, crecimiento y decadencia, y progreso. En palabras de Will, «tomamos nota de acontecimientos y comentarios que podrían iluminar asuntos...

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...

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