Crimen de Estado / State Crime

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...

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Este libro es un intento de reconstruir y explicar los procesos que mediaron entre aquella gran expectativa económica de comienzos del siglo XVI, los logros de la Argentina de comienzos del siglo XX y su crisis posterior.

En este conjunto de ensayos de Rafael Arráiz Lucca, organizados bajo la hipótesis de la navaja de Ockham ("no debe presumirse Ia existencia de más cosas que las necesarias"), el autor abre la puerta del mundo colombiano, tanto en su historia política como en su literatura, así como Ia del venezolano, en una suerte de diálogo entre dos naciones aparentemente similares, cuando en verdad las diferencias son considerables. Revisa el ensayista dos libros polémicos que dan versiones distintas de las oficiales: "La dictadura de Bolívar", de Francisco de Paula Santander, y "Memorias de Simón ...