Íconos y mitos culturales en la invención de la nación en Colombia

Este tercer volumen valora puntos nodales de la historia del subcontinente americano, sin pretender estudiarlos todos, ni cubrir todas las variantes posibles de los diferentes espacios. Los temas estudiados se agrupan en: aspectos políticos, constitucionalismo, políticas económicas, alimentación y el estudio de la encomienda.

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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...

Comprenda por qué el Medio Oriente está tan en conflicto. El Imperio Otomano fue una vez una fuerza poderosa. En su apogeo en 1683, el imperio se extendía desde las puertas de Viena hasta la actual Somalia en el sur y Mesopotamia en el este. Abarcando estados modernos como Irak, Arabia Saudita, Siria y Turquía, la sede del poder del Imperio Otomano fue la ciudad capital de Constantinopla. Este libro describe el fin del Imperio Otomano a principios del siglo XX. También examinaremos la historia de otra poderosa hegemonía imperial, el Imperio Británico. Este poder colonial, junto con...