Orígenes y expresiones de la religiosidad en México

"Collection of articles exploring the life, thought, and writings of a prominent revolutionary and Mexican diplomat"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...

Simon Sebag Montefiore, uno de los más eminentes historiadores británicos, nos presenta las vidas de los gigantes que, para bien o para mal, han hecho nuestro mundo, en un reparto que va de conquistadores, poetas, reyes, emperatrices y prostitutas a psicópatas, compositores y exploradores; figuras como Tamerlán, el señor de la guerra mongol que, en el siglo XIV ordenó la construcción de una pirámide de 70.000 cráneos humanos, u Oskar Schindler, el hombre cuyo desinteresado heroísmo salvó a más de mil judíos de la muerte a manos de la los nazis. Informativo, entretenido,...

Las voces más prestigiosas de la Historia Española reflexionan sobre un debate abiertoVicente PALACIO ATARD (editor)Quintín ALDEA VAQUEROGonzalo ANES Y ÁLVAREZ DE CASTRILLÓNMiguel ARTOLA GALLEGOEloy BENITO RUANOJosé María BLÁZQUEZ MARTÍNEZSalvador CLARAMUNTRicardo GARCÍA CÁRCELFernando GARCÍA DE CORTÁZARLuis A. GARCÍA MORENOMiguel Ángel LADERO QUESADAÁngel J. MARTÍN DUQUECarlos SECO SERRANOJosé Ángel SESMA MUÑOZLuis SUÁREZ FERNÁNDEZHipólito de la TORREJulio VALDEÓN BARUQUEJoaquín VALLVÉ BERMEJODe Hispania a España no es un mero repaso a nuestra historia. Es un...

Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...