El siglo XVIII americano: estudios de historia colonial

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...

Named the 2009 AAUP Best of the Best - Outstanding Book Distinction The history of Mexican Americans spans more than five centuries and varies from region to region across the United States. Yet most of our history books devote at most a chapter to Chicano history, with even less attention to the story of Chicanas. 500 Years of Chicana Women's History offers a powerful antidote to this omission with a vivid, pictorial account of struggle and survival, resilience and achievement, discrimination and identity. The bilingual text, along with hundreds of photos and other images, ranges from...

Argentina y la Primera Guerra Mundial, un momento clave de la historia argentina, que marcó el curso del siglo XX.

Després que el papa Bonifaci VII enfeudés a Jaume II el regne de Sardenya, l'illa entra en l'òrbita política catalano-aragonesa a principis del segle xiv. El vincle amb la Corona d'Aragó es reforça a mitjan segle xv, però sobretot són les reformes de Ferran el Catòlic les que modernitzen Sardenya i preludien la integració polític-institucional del regne en la Monarquia composta dels Àustries. Després de sofrir la controvertida destinació de la política imperial de Carles V, la voluntat política de Felip II determina, en la segona meitat del xvi, la consolidació definitiva de...