Dios, Marx… y el Mapu

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...

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 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...

El tr�nsito vacilanteplantea un estudio minucioso de las m�s recientes tendencias est�ticas y tem�ticas en la cultura venezolana contempor�nea. La antolog�a re�ne doce ensayos fundamentales para una mejor comprensi�n de la diversidad discursiva de las pr�cticas culturales del nuevo milenio. Esta colecci�n recoge un amplio abanico de acercamientos te�rico-cr�ticos al quehacer cultural producido tanto en Venezuela como en la di�spora. El tr�nsito vacilantees el primer esfuerzo colectivo dedicado a investigar la representaci�n de un periodo hist�rico -- marcado...