Al Servicio de su Majestad: Cien Anos de Espionaje Britanico = To Your Majesty Service

Mención del Premio Casa de las Américas 2013 en la categoría ensayo histórico-social, este libro analiza en profundidad, a partir de fuentes de primera mano, un tema de interés general para todos: los dos primeros años de tensas relaciones entre el Gobierno Revolucionario, instaurado en Cuba tras el derrocamiento del dictador Batista en enero de 1959, y la poderosa nación vecina negada a reconocer el triunfo revolucionario, reiterando acciones varias veces repetidas desde que, en 1868, Céspedes y los independentistas tomaron la decisión de liberar a Cuba del colonialismo español....

Los textos aquí reunidos son producto del diálogo constante con habitantes de los barrios, soldados, trabajadores fabriles, campesinos, técnicos, artesanos, escritores. Es el testimonio diario, sin pretensiones, de un intelectual en su aprendizaje constante con la revolución y con las masas. Es, en pocas palabras, la historia viva de Nicaragua.

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...

Seventeen Egyptologists and archaeologists probe the most compelling mysteries of ancient Egypt in this illustrated collection of 70 brief essays. Answers to age-old questions about Egyptian burial rituals, architecture, and royalty are provided, and recent discoveries are discussed—evidence that Tutankhamen was murdered, boats buried intact deep in the desert beside the tombs of the earliest kings, unexplained shafts inside the Great Pyramids aligned with the stars, and a massive mausoleum built for the many sons of Ramses II. The essays are supplemented with evocative photographs,...