Etnias del norte

"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."(Wen 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 humanidad. ...

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...

Las páginas contenidas dan respuesta al cómo, dónde y cuándo se produjo la plata y explica el motivo por el que se le ha catalogado como metal precioso. Surge de una acuciosa investigación que de manera interdisciplinaria y partiendo de la historia mundial enmarca lo anterior. El estudio traza una linea transversal en el tiempo y espacio desde los albores de la humanidad hasta mediados del siglo XVI para facilitar la compreción de perspectivas de continuidad y cambio y establece diferentes niveles de analisis, los cuales atienden a identificar los factores técnicos inherentes a los...

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