Complementos Para la Formación Disciplinar en Historia E Historia Del Arte

El septimo volumen de esta serie donde se reunen los trabajos del prestigioso periodista e historiador Gaston Garcia Cantu esta dedicado a los problemas y ventajas de la posibilidad de atentar contra el poder institucional.

La Guerra de los Treinta Años desgarró el corazón de Europa entre 1618 y 1648: una cuarta parte de la población alemana murió entre violencias, hambrunas y pestes, regiones enteras de Europa central fueron devastadas en un incesante recorrer de ejércitos, y muchas tardaron décadas en recuperarse. Todas las grandes potencias europeas del momento estuvieron involucradas en un conflicto que desbordó las líneas marcadas por la fe, con la pugna entre los Habsburgo y los Borbones dirimiendo el comienzo del ocaso de una gran potencia, la España imperial, contestada por la pujante Francia....

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...