Grecia

De poco sirve estudiar el pasado si no nos ayuda a conocer el presente. En el caso de España, país de pueblos y nacionalidades diversas, de variadas culturas y lenguas, una mirada sobre su historia facilita la comprensión de su compleja realidad actual. El objetivo fundamental de este libro es explicar por qué España es como es. Los diferentes aspectos de la cultura española —economía, política, arte, pensamiento, literatura, etc.— se exponen integrados en un conjunto orgánico de partes interdependientes, no como compartimentos estancos, por ser esto ajeno a la realidad. A fin de ...

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...

The Improbable Conquest offers translations of a series of little-known letters from the chaotic Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata region, uncovering a rich and understudied historical resource. These letters were written by a wide variety of individuals, including clergy, military officers, and the region’s first governor, Pedro de Mendoza. There is also an exceptional contribution from Isabel de Guevara, one of the few women involved in the conquest to have recorded her experiences. Writing about the conditions of settlements and expeditions, these individuals vividly expose the...

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...

¿Cuál es la función del testigo frente a las políticas del estado? ¿Cuáles son las instancias que definen la producción y recepción de su palabra? ¿Cómo visibilizar las huellas del testimonio en una realidad amnésica, cada vez más condicionada por el mercado? En la encrucijada entre el territorio jurídico-político y literario, los textos aquí reunidos se proponen desvelar el ‘secreto’ de la praxis testimonial, iluminando una serie de obras narrativas que describen los contextos chilenos entre el 1973, año tristemente célebre por el comienzo de la dictadura, y el 2015. La...