Atlas de islas sin coches. Segunda parte.

Este libro es una introducción a la cultura política generada por el constitucionalismo en América Latina. La construcción de sociedades democráticas en buena medida depende de cumplir deberes y gozar de derechos que fijan las Constituciones. Entender su génesis y desenvolvimiento es el objetivo central de esta obra.

«El martes 11 de septiembre de 2001 amaneció templado y casi sin nubes en la parte este de Estados Unidos. Millones de hombres y mujeres se disponían a ir a trabajar. Algunos fueron a las Torres Gemelas, la estructura arquitectónica emblemática del complejo del World Trade Center en la ciudad de Nueva York. Otros se encaminaron a Arlington, Virginia, hacia el Pentágono. Al otro lado del río Potomac, el Congreso de Estados Unidos celebraba sesiones de nuevo. En el otro extremo de Pennsylvania Avenue, la gente empezaba a hacer cola para visitar la Casa Blanca. En Sarasota, Florida, el...

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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...