Pasado y fortaleza del pueblo maya

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Son muchos lo que recuerdan a Daniel Cosio Villegas como el periodista que desde las paginas de Excelsior alzo energicamente la voz en momentos en extremo dificiles para el pais. Otros lo situan como uno de los fundadores y el primer director del Fondo de Cultura Economica, o al frente de El Colegio de Mexico, dedicado a su tarea de historiador-escritor, o bien como economista. Sus facetas son multiples, aunque a Cosio le complacia, sobre todo, ser conocido como el autor y director de los diez tomos de la Historia moderna de Mexico.

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...

Recuento del autor sobre los hechos y personas que impregnaron la etapa Vasconcelista que le tocó vivir. En los relatos aparecen consignados todos aquellos acontecimientos que precedieron al declive de ese capítulo de la historia contemporánea.