Los secretos del Congreso

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...

Hace milenios, el ser humano inventó la escritura para preservar sus pensamientos e ideas, plasmándolas en soportes y guardándolas a buen recaudo para garantizar su conservación, durabilidad y transmisión. Los documentos de archivo son instrumentos de valor jurídico y administrativo que nacieron para el buen gobierno de la sociedad y en ellos está latente su memoria. Clasificación: HBA, Historia: teoría y métodos (Original) - HBLH, Historia moderna: c.1450/1500-c. 1700 (Original) - HBLL, Historia contemporánea hasta el siglo xx: c. 1700-c. 1900 (Original) - 3J, Período moderno, c. ...

Durante muchos años, los aztecas han capturado nuestra imaginación. Las historias de los invasores europeos originales combinadas con ruinas y leyendas únicas e impresionantes que hablan de palacios de oro crean una imagen de la sociedad azteca definida por la grandeza, la riqueza y el esplendor.

This book is perhaps the most profound, sincere, and all encompassing look into the character of the Cuban people: their triumphs and falls, their past, present and future. An important and lucid book for understanding the history and reality of the Cuban nation.