Estructura Socioeconómica de México

La larga trayectoria historiográfica del profesor Paul Preston le acredita como el más relevante continuador de la fecunda tradición del hispanismo británico. El presente volumen quiere constituir un homenaje que completa el que se le rindiera con su nombramiento como doctor honoris causa de nuestra Universidad. En los textos aquí seleccionados se articula un enfoque coherente y, a la vez, complejo de la contemporaneidad española en su profunda imbricación con la historia del siglo XX europeo. Analizando dinámicas políticas y estructurales tanto como las vivencias y experiencias de...

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La presente obra consiste en una sucinta colección de bytes históricos que, en algunos pasajes, pone en tela de juicio leyendas urbanas relacionados con la historia de los Estados Unidos; en otros, ilustra algunos sucesos históricos poco notorios y ofrece un enfoque diferente sobre algunos hechos conocidos.

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...