Cartas edificantes sobre el comercio y la navegación entre Perú y Chile a comenzios del siglo XVIII

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Para los mapuche su referencia geográfica es el Este, lugar donde nace el sol. Desde aquí debemos situarnos para comenzar a mirar y comprender el mundo y la vida en él. Para ellos, el territorio fundamento de su existencia: es vida, espiritualidad, pasado y presente, yo en los otros.

En los cincuenta años que preceden a la Revolución francesa, Europa se ve desgarrada por conflictos de todo tipo. Las tensiones sociales y económicas aumentan bajó la presión, de una población creciente para la cual el suministro de alimentos resulta permanentemente insuficiente. Las rivalidades imperialistas en América y Asia, y las políticas expansionistas de Prusia y Rusia vienen a añadir nuevas dimensiones a las guerras europeas. Pero, por encima de todo, la nueva dinámica de esta época va a ser la surgida del desafío al tradicional monopolio del poder político ejercido por...

As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...