Abd-el-Krim el Jatabi

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La fascinante historia de siete ilustres monarcas femeninas protagonistas de reinados admirables y periodos de prosperidad y gloria para sus pueblos. Al indagar en el devenir de las principales monarquías pronto se hizo patente que las personalidades seductoras y llamativas y los reinados más admirables, eficientes y "útiles", si es que pude usarse ese adjetivo refiriéndose a reinados, fueron los de algunas reinas. Ha habido muchas menos reinas que ejerciesen la auctoritas y la potestas, que reyes, sin embargo el resultado de ejercicio de la potestas es abrumador a favor de estas....

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...

Esta antología recaba testimonios en torno al descubrimiento cultural de los pueblos del Nuevo Mundo. Las fuentes, que van de 1492 al siglo XVIII y del estrecho de Magallanes a la isla de Nutka, incluyen a Colón, Vespuccio, Díaz del Castillo, Motolinía, el Inca Garcilaso y Moziño, quienes, junto a otros frailes, juristas, soldados y marineros, dan su testimonio directo de lo americano: el paisaje, los aborígenes, las mujeres, los dioses, las vestiduras, las virtudes, los vicios. Esta nueva edición, de la original de 1963, incluye prólogo de Pablo Escalante, bibliografía actualizada y ...