Las cecas ibéricas meridionales de la Hispania Ulterior y su circulación monetaria

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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...

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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