Manual de Historia Medieval

Esta recopilación de artículos, organizada de manera coherente y unitaria, aborda un problema fundamental en la historia económica más reciente, el desarrollo de los sistemas de mercados y de intercambio comercial en la Baja Edad Media. Lo hace desde el observatorio del Aragón de los siglos XIV y XV, un espacio político, social y económico mediterráneo que cuenta con fuentes privilegiadas para realizar este examen. Contempla también el libro diversos problemas vinculados a este proceso de cambio social y expansión mercantil decisivo a escala de la Península Ibérica, en particular...

Antropología y utopía es una aportación programática a la antropología filosófica. Estudia dos asuntos fundamentales. En primer lugar, la misión que la antropología filosófica tiene en el amplio abanico de las disciplinas que tratan sobre el hombre. Se acepta la idea de Sacheler de entenderla como una reflexión sobre los datos de las antropologías positivas, pero sin que por ello pierda su capacidad de obtener conclusiones trascendentales y de proponer programas de investigación. En segundo lugar, se realiza un estudio sobre el ser humano fundado en las conclusiones de la...

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After the success of Miss Narco, Javier Valdez presents a new work on Mexico s drug crisis. This time, the leading characters are young men and women at that crucial age in their personal development who, in one way or another, come across the world of drug trafficking. Some escape its clutches while others fall in its trap, but their lives are irrevocably changed. The author collects the most intense, moving and surprising accounts that mark Mexicos social and political reality today. Spanish Description: Tras el exito de Miss Narco, Javier Valdez entrega una nueva obra acerca del...

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...