De la misa al tajo

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Es una crónica del pasado que se remonta al último tercio del siglo XVI cuando, en pleno reinado de Felipe II, comienzan a circular las primeras mulas de alquiler de la Villa y Corte, después vinieron las sillas de mano, conducidas por pícaros mozos; las literas, los populares coches de caballos bautizados por el pueblo de Madrid con el nombre de Simones. Más tarde a nuetro Simón le salió novia: la Manuela, un coche descapotable llamado Milord que compitió por ocupar un lugar en la puerta del Sol y el salón del Prado. Son un sin fin de historias contadas en este libro que intenta...

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...

El profesor Lefebvre hace un análisis objetivo de la Revolución francesa y estudia, además, su repercusión mundial y su influencia en la sociedad contemporánea. La obra se remonta al siglo XIX para examinar desde la era bonapartista y su proyección en Europa hasta su derrota por las fuerzas aliadas.