Contrabando, poder y color en los albores de la República: Nueva Granada, 1822-1824

Profiles nine important figures in the history of México including the Emperor Montezuma, Hernán Cortés, Benito Juárez, and Cuauhtemoc, the last Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán.

Más que un catálogo de relojería, el lector tiene en sus manos un trabajo que indaga sobre la relación del ser humano con el tiempo, vínculo inexorable que se logra gracias a un dispositivo que convierte el tiempo en objeto perceptible. A pesar de que se trata de un estudio específico acerca de una sociedad en particular, no se debe ignorar que los relojes hacen parte de una historia que enlaza al mundo Antiguo, pasando por la Edad Media como punto coyuntural, con el mundo Contemporáneo. Teniendo como base la colección de relojes de la Casa Museo Quinta de Bolívar y del Museo de la...

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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...