Familia y vida cotidiana en América Latina, siglos XVIII-XX

Los artículos que integran este volumen dan testimonio de fuentes que habían sido desdeñadas y de búsquedas de sentimientos habitualmente ignorados. En esta nueva nave de los locos en la que nos hemos embarcado ahora, caben por igual los modestos vecinos de un complejo multifamiliar y las testas mitradas de quienes ostentaron el poder de la Iglesia; nos sorprenden las debilidades humanas y nos identificamos con las calamidades y los conflictos. Es la historia que nos resulta familiar porque trata de vidas comunes y del acontecer de todos los días.

Alberto Müller was born in Havana, Cuba, on May 23, 1939.He studied at the Columbus School (first education);Institute of Havana (admission);Belén & Escolapios de Guanabacoa(secondary education);Law at the University of Havana;Bachelor of Arts at St. Thomas University, Miami, Master in International Relations at FIU, Miami. In February 1960, he organized a student demonstration repudiating the visit to Cuba of Anastas Mikoyán, the Soviet leader who led the massacre of the Hungarian people in 1956.He organized in Miami, together with other students, he Student Revolutionary Directory, an...

Aborda un tema poco atendido por la historiografía: el de la oposición política y su papel en el desarrollo histórico del siglo XX. A partir de un análisis que articula los distintos movimientos opositores, la autora busca destacar la presencia de distintas expresiones políticas, así como la capacidad de convocatoria de diversos grupos sociales.

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...