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Exclusive interviews with key political figures in Mexico—former presidents Zedillo and Salinas, and guerrilla leader Marcos—are the basis of this study that untangles the complex influences that have shaped Mexico over the past 20 years. From the Zapatistas to electoral fraud, this well-researched history accounts for many parts of Mexican politics and economy that have remained obscured by official silence. Beyond recurring catastrophes, however, this journalist finds the seed of a modern democracy in Vicente Fox's presidency, one which the author analyzes in a prologue added for this...

"Siena: City of Secrets" is a charming, intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Part cultural history and intellectual memoir, part travelogue and guide book, Tylus writes with a novelist s flair, taking the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-travelled roads and alleys of the ancient city. Today, Siena can appear on the surface standoffish, a bit static, and very old-fashioned, especially when compared to its larger, flashier cousins Roma and Firenze. But first impressions wear away as we learn from Tylus that...

De la colección Nudos de la Historia Argentina dirigida por Jorge Gelman, un ensayo destinado a analizar el impacto de la reforma universitaria de 1918 en el ámbito educativo y político de todo el siglo XX.

Ésta es una investigación que intenta sacar a la luz los antecedentes socioculturales de la civilización occidental moderna. En efecto, al analizar sus antecedentes histórico-religiosos, elementos formativos, instituciones religiosas y sociopolíticas, creaciones intelectuales y artísticas, así como sus crisis espirituales y conflictos sociales, el autor logra discernir la clave para entender los periodos subsiguientes de la historia de Occidente, particularmente la Era Moderna, con sus evidentes logros ideológicos y científicos y sus lamentables vacíos espirituales y morales.