Historia del abasto de productos alimenticios en la Ciudad de México

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...

A polemic work due to its hefty critic to public figures and to those who see the electoral reformations -which this book demystifies-, as a historical achievement. The transition to democracy requires not only the dismantlement of the old regime, but also the design of the new normative and institutional arrangement that preserves the plural and multiple spirit of the nation. The task is immense, but our generation cannot avoid it: citizens must not stay apart. The mixture of fill and hope has to be translated into critic, proposal, and active participation. The essays that I have gathered...

A mas de sesenta anos del falso final de la Guerra Civil, el presente libro repasa la literatura y la cinematografia mas significativas sobre la guerra y analiza algunos de los mitos y distorsiones mas comunes aun vigentes: su inevitabilidad, la leyenda de Badajoz, la gesta del Alcazar, Madrid como capital de la gloria y del dolor, el papel de sus intelectuales, la confusa cuestion de la memoria y el olvido, etc.

Uno de los grandes riesgos de las síntesis históricas es que al darle forma a los procesos de cambio que modifican de raíz una sociedad en un lapso de tiempo se pierden de vista las pequeñas historias de los grupos sociales participantes en los grandes movimientos. Evitar esto es uno de los grandes aciertos del libro de Hamnett, quien hace una crítica de la historia del movimiento independentista mexicano con base en la problemática de cada región del país.