Juan Ladrilleros

Christian Duverger aclara por qué en la Nueva España el cristianismo pudo ser introducido con éxito y relativa rapidez: los primeros religiosos franciscanos, compenetrados por la cultura y la sensibilidad indígenas, sustituyeron ritos y prácticas sólo mediante un sincretismo evidente que hizo posible un cristianismo popular no siempre ortodoxo.

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La historia puede ser muy, pero muy aburrida. Con decenas de reyes, cientos de documentos, miles de batallas y cero gracia. Hasta ahora. Porque ¿sabías que las primeras huellas descubiertas de un homínido caminando sobre sus dos pies fue durante una guerra de bosta de elefante entre dos paleontólogos? ¿Y alguna vez te contaron que el bautizo del Big Bang fue en tono despectivo? Bueno, esta es la misma historia de otros libros, pero aliñada con datos que nunca escuchaste en tu sala de clases. Como que el emperador persa Cambises II venció a los egipcios en la batalla de Pelusium (525...

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...