Citerior y ulterior

Desde el primer Borbón hasta el actual príncipe de Asturias, este fascinante libro es una invitación a recorrer las pequeñas y grandes tragedias que han azotado a esta dinastía. Enfermedad, locura, voracidad sexual, endogamia... son sólo algunos de los estigmas que jalonan la crónica de los Borbones, repleta de contratiempos, escándalos y extrañas muertes. Desde la psicopatía de Felipe V hasta la ninfomanía de Isabel II; desde la calamidad de los infantes y reyes llamados Alfonso hasta los trece - ¡trece!- Borbones que murieron en la Guerra Civil; desde el fatídico accidente 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...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

En nuestro tiempo, a la vez que se producen debates en torno a la muestra de restos humanos en museos, asistimos al éxito de público de exhibiciones de restos humanos en operaciones comerciales que se sitúan a medio camino entre la divulgación científica y el negocio del espectáculo. Las preguntas que suscita este doble episodio contemporáneo son muchas, las respuestas dependen, en mayor o menor medida, de argumentos en boca de un amplio elenco de expertos de diferente condición y procedencia (geográfica, cultural, social). Sin embargo, con frecuencia, la historicidad del fenómeno...