Plata, comercio y guerra

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...

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Tras el éxito de Sapiens, Yuval Noah Harari vuelve su mirada al futuro para ver hacia dónde nos dirigimos. Bestseller del New York Times con 1 millón de ejemplares vendidos Yuval Noah Harari, autor de Sapiens, un fenómeno internacional unánimemente aclamado por la crítica, regresa con una secuela igualmente original, convincente y provocadora, centrando su atención en el futuro de la humanidad y en nuestra obsesión por convertirnos en dioses. A lo largo del último siglo, la humanidad ha logrado lo imposible frenando la hambruna, la peste y la guerra. Por primera vez en la historia,...

El presente libro reúne dieciséis capítulos que muestran una visión amplia de los metales en la historia de América; los autores provienen de Argentina, Bolivia, Chile, Colombia, Ecuador, España, Estados Unidos, Francia, México y Perú. La mayoría de los capítulos fueron presentados en el simposio titulado «La Metalurgia como hilo conductor para el entendimiento de los cambios políticos, sociales y económicos de las sociedades precolombinas y colonial en América», del 56° Congreso Internacional de Americanistas (Salamanca, España -2018). En sentido histórico, este volumen...