La frontera occidental de la Audiencia de Quito

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A pesar de lo que piensa la gran mayoría, la Inquisición no se originó en España, sino que fue una creación vaticana para acabar con la difusión de la herejía cátara o albigense en Francia, que se extendió por toda Europa durante los siglos XII y XIII. Tres siglos llevaba ya funcionando, cuando en 1478 el papa Sixto IV emitió una bula a los Reyes Católicos para nombrar inquisidores en Castilla. La Leyenda Negra antiespañola fue alentada y difundida por los enemigos de la monarquía hispánica —protestantes alemanes, holandeses e ingleses principalmente—, que conseguirán que...

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...

Probablemente el m rito principal de este curioso estudio de Lawrence Stone es que plantea una nueva forma de estudiar la historia, no ya considerando solamente las grandes transformaciones sociales y pol ticas en sus aspectos m s vastos y generales, sino poniendo atenci n en la vida cotidiana.