El siglo XVII

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...

Esta moderna biografía de san Pablo viene recorriendo con general apaluso el mundo entero a través de sus repetidas ediciones alemanas y sus traducciones a las principales lenguas europeas. El éxito editorial alcanzado se explica por las relevantes cualidades de la obra. En ella se han dado mano las más variadas disciplinas, como la exégesis y la teología del Nuevo Testamento, la historia del helenismo y del judaismo, la historia de las religiones y la de la cultura filosófica coetánea, la geografía, la topografía y la arqueología de los países recorridos por el Apóstol. Con tan...

Se presentan análisis empiricos desde disciplinas como la antropología, la lingüística, la historia, la arqueología, que narran las acciones de los pueblos como factores indispnsables del todo social, con la finalidad de saber la realidad sociocultural de las poblaciones originarias de América

A polemic work due to its hefty critic to public figures and to those who see the electoral reformations -which this book demystifies-, as a historical achievement. The transition to democracy requires not only the dismantlement of the old regime, but also the design of the new normative and institutional arrangement that preserves the plural and multiple spirit of the nation. The task is immense, but our generation cannot avoid it: citizens must not stay apart. The mixture of fill and hope has to be translated into critic, proposal, and active participation. The essays that I have gathered...