México ante el fin de la Guerra Fría

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...

Entre los tópicos acerca del origen de la guerra civil española ninguno hay más repetido, y menos fundamentado, que el que sostiene que todo comenzó como respuesta a la escalada revolucionaria que se produjo durante los meses que siguieron al triunfo electoral del Frente Popular, en febrero de 1936. Una escalada en que, según este tópico, asumen un papel principal las invasiones de tierras por parte de los campesinos extremeños. Este libro de Francisco Espinosa explora por primera vez de manera seria y documentada lo que sucedió en aquellos meses de 1936 y demuestra la falsedad de la...

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A beautiful slipcase holds three volumes on the history of Bogota, making this resource an indispensable and fascinating documentary of Colombia's capital. The first two volumes that cover the conquest, colonialism, and the 19th century have been updated with fresh designs, while a completely new third volume covers the 20th century and includes the history of Bogota's expansion, the development of services and institutions, and the achievements and failures of more recent times. This lovely collection constitutes a legacy of obligatory reading for both its current and future inhabitants....