Código de Hammurabi

Tratado breve sobre las características más distintivas de la civilización romana desde la fundación de Roma hasta su decadencia como imperio. Se analizan costumbres, política, filosofía, actitudes religiosas y el derecho positivo que legaron los romanos al mundo.

Las consecuencias de la desintegración de la Unión Soviética han sido extraordinariamente intensas no sólo en Europa sino también en el resto del mundo. La desaparición de un actor estratégico de primer orden, como fue la URSS durante más de cincuenta años, y, con ella, de una cierta estabilidad basada en la disuasión y el equilibrio de poderes, ha conmocionado profundamente a la sociedad internacional, provocando, al mismo tiempo, un complejo proceso sucesorio. La herencia soviética será, por consiguiente, espinosa, trágica en algunas ocasiones, y, casi siempre, muy...

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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...