Introducción al derecho indiano y novohispano

Historia de la "Batalla del Río de la Plata": el desembarco de la tripulación del Graf Spee, su hundimiento y el suicidio de su capitán, Hans Langsdorff, en el contexto argentino que va del golpe de Uriburu a la llegada del peronismo.

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...

With its 27 contributions, this volume presents most of the papers delivered at the "XVe Colloque du Comite International de Paleographie". The conference's focus was regional and supra-regional influences on the development of Latin script from late antiquity and the early medieval period to the beginning of modern times. The geographic area considered in the articles spans the Iberian Peninsula and Central Europe to Iceland. In their contributions, the authors have attempted to show the impact that not only local conditions but also European cultural and intellectual centres had on the...

En 1688 Gran Bretaña logró no sólo la libertad política y religiosa, sino un poderío nacional mayor que el de la monarquía absoluta de Francia. éstas son las razones por las que los historiadores modernos consideran a la Revolución de 1688 como un momento decisivo en la historia de ese país.