El siglo XVII

“Los mayas elevaron hacia el Sol que tanto veneraban sofisticadas construcciones de piedra y sacrificaron víctimas humanas en sus altares. Fue un pueblo dominado por guerreros y sacerdotes que combinó con sorprendente paridad el talento con la barbarie, la belleza con la fuerza, el arte con la sangre.” (Web El bolígrafo) Una cultura que compaginó una sofisticación astronómica, matemática y arquitectónica sin parangón con los sacrificios humanos y la guerra continua. Mundo maya nos acerca de un modo breve pero enormemente preciso a una de las culturas más enigmáticas de la...

CUBA 1959 is a fictional novel written in the Spanish language that recounts the determination and success of a group of young Cubans resisting against Fidel Castro's takeover of the island on January 1, 1959. Their political organization, the Brigada de Accion Popular manages to escape Castro's vindictive militias, and form an insurgent government inside Cuban territory; from there on the novel embarks on a fast-paced, entertaining and suspenseful narrative. As the author says: "it could have made the difference". Readers, Cuban or not will enjoy this novel's creativity, action and profound...

De la colección «Nudos de la historia argentina» dirigiga por Jorge Gelman, el lugar del Estado en la economía a lo largo de más de 150 años.

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...