Dios, patria y muerte

"A fascinating and beautifully argued interpretation of how the American war in Southeast Asia affected Chicano communities. The author provides the most complete and well-documented study to date of this important chapter in U.S. history and its impact on an ethnic group with long-standing traditions of military service, assimilation, and resistance to injustice. Oropeza's book is what students of the Chicano Movement, especially the Mexican American role in antiwar activities during the Vietnam War period, have been waiting for."—George Mariscal, author of Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano...

La palabra «cosaco» evoca imágenes muy distintas entre la gente. Para algunos, estos diestros jinetes de las estepas de Asia ?con cartucheras y gorros de piel, sables y espuelas? son una personificación romántica del valor y la osadía, de la libertad y el cristianismo militante. Para otros se trata de verdaderos jinetes del infierno: ora rebeldes depravados que hicieron tambalear la casa de los Romanov, ora instrumentos implacables de la expansión rusa y la represión zarista. La verdad no radica en un punto intermedio: por sorprendente que parezca, ambos extremos son ciertos. John Ure ...

Novedosa reconstrucción histórica de los once reyes de Tenochtitlan y, especialmente de los dos Moctezumas y de sus madres y esposas. A partir de la ruina anterior del reino tolteca y del viaje de Topiltzin Quetzalcóatl a Chichén-Itzá, la destacada antropóloga estadunidense desarrolla la tesis de la conciencia cíclica de los aztecas como teoría que explicaba sus grandes cataclismos y el presagio de nuevas eras.

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