El Hombre Gris (L'homme Gris)

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...

En Diciembre de 1999 se llevó a cabo en el Instituto Riva-Agüero -Escuela de Altos Estudios de la Pontificia Universidad Católica del Perú- el congreso internacional "Familia y Vida Cotidiana, siglos XVIII-XX” que contó con la presencia de destacados especialistas peruanos y extranjeros. El congreso se organizó en cuatro mesas temáticas: Cultura y Sociedad (que coordinó Fanni Muñoz Cabrejo), Arte y Literatura (coordinada por Mónica Ricketts Sánchez Moreno), Vida Urbana (bajo la coordinación de Gabriel Ramón Joffré) y, finalmente, Familia y Sexualidad (coordinada por Scarlett...

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...

Volumen que ofrece la primera edición crítica de la descripción de la ciudad de Verona escrita en latín por el juriconsulto y cronista local Torello Saraina, publicada en 1540. Una obra que responde al modelo de "laudatio urbis" establecido por Quintiliano. Escrita en forma de diálogo, los interlocutores son, además de Saraina, personajes pertenecientes a nobles y ricas familias veronesas, quienes recorren en varias jornadas la ciudad, desplegando una amable erudición junto al pintor y amante de las antigüedades (arqueólogo) Giovanni Carotto (1488-1566), a quien se deben las 30...