General de división José María Córdova

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...

Este ensayo indaga en profundidad y documentadamente en los valores y las formas de sociabilidad de la élite chilena en su época de apogeo oligárquico: las décadas en torno al Centenario. En esos años marcados por el contraste entre la opulencia de esa minoría y la miseria mayoritaria, explora los ámbitos en donde se fraguaba el poder nacional y se redefinía la articulación entre tradición y modernidad. Con el talento narrativo que imprime a toda su obra, el historiador Manuel Vicuña penetra en el mundo íntimo de la sociedad aristocrática, exponiendo el significado político de...

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Al arribar a Paraguay en octubre de 1955, Juan Domingo Perón dio su primera conferencia de prensa luego de su derrocamiento. Un corresponsal le preguntó entonces qué pensaba hacer para regresar al poder. Perón lo miró y le respondió: "Nada. Todo lo harán mis enemigos". Los siguientes dieciocho años de la historia argentina parecen resumirse en esa frase. Este nuevo libro de Mitos de la historia argentina está dedicado a dilucidar la primera década de proscripción del peronismo y de exilio de su conductor. Durante ese período, los sucesivos y diversos intentos de "desperonizar" al...