Historia crítica de la España Contemporánea

"A fascinating and beautifully argued interpretation of how the American war in Southeast Asia affected Chicano communities. The author provides the most complete and well-documented study to date of this important chapter in U.S. history and its impact on an ethnic group with long-standing traditions of military service, assimilation, and resistance to injustice. Oropeza's book is what students of the Chicano Movement, especially the Mexican American role in antiwar activities during the Vietnam War period, have been waiting for."—George Mariscal, author of Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano...

"No existe una verdadera revolucion social sin la liberacion de la mujer," explica Sankara, dirigente central de la revolucion de 1983-87 en Burkina Faso. Los trabajadores y campesinos de ese pais de Africa occidental establecieron un gobierno popular revolucionario y comenzaron a combatir el hambre, el analfabetismo y el atraso economico impuestos por el dominio imperialista."There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women," explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and peasants in that West African country established a popular revolutionary...

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Tal es el grado de desconocimiento de nuestra historia naval que el simple título de este trabajo parecerá a muchos una contradicción, porque el sustantivo ‘corsario’ no puede ir acompañado del gentilicio ‘español’. A consolidar esta percepción, ha contribuido la imagen acuñada por la literatura y el cine. Al contrario, como esperamos demostrar en estas páginas, en España hubo numerosos corsarios y de gran éxito. Conviene aclarar que un corsario era algo muy diferente de un pirata. El corsario se trataba de un particular que, por las razones que fuesen, había obtenido una...