El hambre en el mundo

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Historia de Cuba I: Ramiro Guerra Fragmento de la obra INTRODUCCIÓN. LA HISTORIA Y LOS FACTORES HISTÓRICOS 1. Advertencia preliminar Las generalizaciones previas, si se establecen como dogmas absolutos, son peligrosas en toda investigación sinceramente enderezada a escudriñar la verdad; pero si solo se adelantan a título de simples hipótesis sujetas a ulteriores rectificaciones, aportan la inmensa ventaja de dirigir la observación, facilitar el análisis y allanar el camino a la inferencia. El investigador, colocado frente a enormes y confusas masas de hechos, no puede abordar la...

«Desde el inicio de su carrera académica, Eileen Power se dedicó a preparar una historia de la mujer en la Edad Media. Ambicionaba producir un estudio más completo y mejor documentado, que cualquiera de los libros existentes sobre el tema. En ciertos momentos otros temas, sobre todo el comercio medieval de la lana, ocuparon gran parte de su tiempo e interés, pero en ningún momento dejó de recolectar material o de elaborar resúmenes de documentación comprobatoria para su estudio de las mujeres medievales. Su Medieval Nunneries (Conventos de monjas medievales) y sus ediciones de The...

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...