Historia de la Iglesia en Chile. Tomo II

La estructura general de la Colección está delimitada por hechos específicos que marcan cambios y abren nuevas etapas en la dinámica de una Iglesia siempre presente en la historia de nuestra patria, el tercer tomo Los nuevos caminos: la Iglesia y el Estado nos muestra el proceso que terminará con la separación de la Iglesia y el Estado

Cada palabra tiene su origen en una anécdota que sorprende por simple y desopilante. Daniel Balmaceda ha unido en este libro sus dos pasiones: la historia y la palabra. ¿De dónde surgieron términos como "abatatarse" o "boicotear"? ¿Por qué le decimos cubiertos a los utensilios que usamos para comer? ¿Por qué conocemos como jacuzzis a las bañeras con hidromasaje? La historia de las palabras es la historia de nuestra propia vida. Por eso, las palabras son muy valiosas. Si queremos sacar provecho de ellas, debemos conocerlas mejor. En esta oportunidad, Balmaceda no recorre la...

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Bringing the everyday lives of everyday people into the spotlight, each one of the titles in this series takes a look at the day-to-day details of ancient civilizations and their time periods. They also offer insight into daily chores, family structures, and the practice of religion. Through these pages, today's readers can see the everyday details that have managed to survive space and time. Reflejando la vida cotidiana de la gente común, cada uno de los títulos de la colección intenta rescatar las particularidades de los pueblos de la antigüedad y de los períodos históricos que hoy...

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...