La cara oculta de China

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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...

Cuando el imperio español en América -ese que había nacido al amparo del "descubrimiento" de un continente- se hizo pedazos, en la penosa gestión de una herencia colonial de tres siglos se dieron las condiciones para que sobreviviera otro "descubrimiento": el de América por la Iglesia católica romana. Para todos los implicados, el acercamiento condujo a renovar las formas de representarse el mundo católico y la propia participación en él, un proceso de conocimiento y reconocimiento mutuo, del cual surgió una nueva imagen romana de lo que era América, pero también una nueva idea de ...

Written in 1540 by Friar Bernardino de Sahag-n, an in-depth ethnological account of the Aztec customs, religion and language.