La guitarra, la imprenta y la nación

En este libro y su recorrido gráfico, podrás comprobar como en Madrid, con el paso de los siglos, los hechos históricos han ido transformando el Prado de San Jerónimo y los jardines del palacio del Real Sitio del Buen Retiro.

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

Los refranes y maldiciones del acervo folclórico ídish que, en versión española y fonética original ídish, integran la presente obra, fueron seleccionados intentando brindar una muestra amplia y representativa de esta singular expresión oral del pueblo judío. En el marco de una historia más de tres veces milenaria, el ídish condensa una cultura cocinada a fuego lento a lo largo de un milenio. Muchos refranes ídish son chistes condensados, y también expresiones de sabiduría popular: Los dos se quieren, él se quiere y ella se quiere. Cuando la solterona sale a bailar van los...

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...