Antonio Vanegas Arroyo, andanzas de un editor popular (1880-1901)

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...

Los esenciales de la filosofia. Tenemos como novedades: La rebelion de las masas de Jose Ortega y Gasset; La genealogia de la moral de F. Nietzsche; El orden del ser. Antologia filosofica de Santo Tomas de Aquino y la segunda edicion de Tractatus Logicophilosophius de L. Wittgenstein.

From feudalism to the rise of cities, this book is a guide to the secrets and mysteries of the medieval world. It explores the plight of serfs, the bravery of the knights-errant, the frustrated ventures that were the Crusades, the romanticism of courtly love, and a number of other topics in an engaging style. The book also focuses on the role the Catholic Church played during the Middle Ages—often for ill—examining indulgences, the Inquisition, and the motivation for the construction of gothic cathedrals. Desde el feudalismo hasta el surgimiento de las ciudades, este libro es una guía de ...

Quetzalcóatl, Alejandro Magno, Emiliano Zapata, Inkarrí, Beltrán de Born, Nezahualcóyotl, Cong Hoy y Miguel Hidalgo se cuentan entre las complejas figuras heroicas analizadas en este volumen. La idea de reflexionar sobre el tema «El héroe entre el mito y la historia», en un coloquio organizado por Federico Navarrete y Guilhem Olivier del cual proceden los textos reunidos en este volumen, surgió del interés que, desde hace algunos años, vuelven a despertar las figuras heroicas. La participación de 16 especialistas de disciplinas diferentes -historia, historia del arte,...