Fidel Castro (El camino de la resistencia) [Nueva edición]

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...

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Durante los siglos XVI y XVII, las llamadas Guerras de Religión sacudieron Europa. La sucesión de graves y sangrientos conflictos provocó un trauma colectivo que pervivió durante centurias. Luchas en nombre de un Dios con patria, en un tiempo en el que la libertad de pensamiento no era más que una entelequia y cuya máxima proclama, «Un rey, una ley y una fe», constituía el principio absoluto sobre el que giraba todo en el Viejo Continente. Con su pluma ágil y rigurosa, la profesora María Lara descifra —en clave teológica, filosófica, antropológica e histórica— las creencias ...

La Historia de Guinea Ecuatorial es un libro necesario para conocer el pasado de este país; entender su presente, y conjeturar su futuro. Desgraciadamente, no cuenta con muchos precedentes. Durante la etapa colonial solo se hablaba y estudiaba la geografía e historia de la metrópoli; después de la independencia, Francisco Macías Nguema organizó un régimen de terror que persiguió ferozmente toda actividad intelectual convirtiendo el país en una jauría humana; por su parte el Gobierno español declaró “Materia reservada” a todo lo relacionado con su antigua colonia, norma...