Cerro Gordo

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 obra es la continuaci n de los vol menes sobre Benito Ju rez publicados en 2006. En ella se hace un repaso de los art culos, los libros, las rese as y algunos episodios que comentan los temas tratados en los dos libros anteriores.

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

El Palo del Ahorcado es un árbol de eucalipto que nació y se arraigó en la cima de Cerro Seco en el barrio Potosí en Ciudad Bolívar, y se convirtió en símbolo local que recoge la memoria y la experiencia de vida de los y las habitantes de la localidad en el borde sur de la ciudad de Bogotá. Este árbol, desde hace casi un siglo, es un elemento natural y cultural que ha sido dotado de gran valor simbólico. Enraíza el territorio con la memoria colectiva y las trayectorias de vida de miles de habitantes de la ciudad, en un rico tejido comunitario representado en relaciones de...