El comercio exterior del Oriente Venezolano en el siglo XVIII

Este estudio hacendístico y fiscal recoge la ordenación, sistematización y clasificación de las cuentas de Real Hacienda de la Caja Real de Cumaná, cabecera de la gobernación de Nueva Andalucía, durante el período 1734-1785, así como una reconstrucción de la dependencia finaciera exterior que mantuvo hasta la década de los años ochenta de la centuria analizada. El trabajo completa una importante laguna en el conocimiento del pasado colonial de las provincias orientales de Venezuerla. Constituye igualmente una valiosa aportación para el conocimiento de las zonas marginales del...

La obra estudia por primera vez las relaciones de los emperadores romanos con los ríos del Imperio en el ámbito de la religión. En una primera parte, se destacan los esfuerzos de la administración romana para imponer su dominio sobre las aguas. En la segunda parte, se atiende a las diversas formas de cruzar el río por parte del emperador y su ejército y por último, en una tercera parte, se examinan dos casos particulares: las relaciones del poder imperial con el Tíber y el Nilo.

Fernando del Paso tells his work experience as a translator, radio announcer and producer of radio shows of the Latin-American service of the BBC before and after the conflict between the United Kingdom and Argentina for the Falkland Islands. It reflexs upon the posture taken from both countries in front of the international community for the rightful sovereignty of the islands and the censorship measures about the subject in the media.

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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...