Sin patrón

The nineteenth century was a golden age for those people known variously as sodomites, Uranians, monosexuals, and homosexuals. Long before Stonewall and Gay Pride, there was such a thing as gay culture, and it was recognized throughout Europe and America.

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...

El pensamiento francés en el siglo XVIII, publicado por primera vez en 1926, ha conocido once ediciones sucesivas. Se trata, pues, de un libro ya 'clásico' que Ediciones Encuentro recupera para el público de habla hispana, contribuyendo de este modo a la reflexión que se ha desencadenado en toda Europa en torno al segundo centenario de la Revolución francesa, sus antecedentes filosófico-culturales y sus consecuencias históricas en los ámbitos europeo e internacional. Con rigor e imparcialidad, Daniel Mornet presenta en estas páginas una historia breve, metódica y ordenada de la vida ...

El Barroco literario europeo: Poesía barroca española, la prosa en el barroco español, Lope de Vega, teatro español del siglo de oro, la literatura 'seiscentista' italiana, la literatura portuguesa en el Barroco, el Barroco literario en Inglaterra, el sig