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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...

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A pesar de haber mantenido históricamente largos y fecundos contactos, y de su presencia cada vez más activa en nuestra sociedad contemporánea, el islam es aún para nosotros, en términos generales, un gran desconocido. En el presente libro, el profesor Vernet (uno de sus mayores especialistas occidentales, autoridad internacional en el campo de la ciencia árabe y traductor del Corán y de “Las mil y una noches”) nos presenta, con gran amenidad y sencillez expositiva, sus principios básicos, su primera historia y su primer desarrollo. El presente libro habrá de ser una excelente...

Fernando García de Cortázar nos devuelve el placer de conocer España a través de su gran legado, un interminable río de vidas mayúsculas, ideas, formas artísticas y fantasías literarias, paisajes y ciudades que da rostro a la mejor de nuestras historias. El escritor bilbaíno nos ofrece aquí un apasionante compendio de su sabiduría sobre España: una obra brillante y original, dedicada a recordar, con tanto rigor como talento literario, lo que los españoles hemos sido y creado a lo largo de los siglos. Pocas veces un libro reúne y ordena tanta información de manera tan amena y...