Papado, cruzadas y órdenes militares, siglos XI-XIII

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...

De ningun pais de America Latina llegaron tantos voluntarios a la guerra civil como de Cuba; quiza en ninguno se viviera el conflicto espanol con tanta pasion, y en ninguno se ha mantenido tan viva la memoria de esa guerra como en Cuba. Este libro estudia el impacto de la contienda espanola en mas de ciento cincuenta escritores de la isla. Algunos eran intelectuales ya consagrados, que viajaron a Espana como periodistas o delegados al Congreso de Escritores Antifascistas. Otros eran diplomaticos que se convirtieron a la fuerza en testigos privilegiados de la guerra, responsabilizandose en la...

Nueva edición actualizada del clásico texto de Preston sobre la transición y la consolidación de la democracia española. El triunfo de la democracia en España es el gran libro de Paul Preston sobre la Transición y la consolidación de la democracia española, donde retrata las numerosas dificultades y momentos dolorosos de una etapa fundamental de la historia reciente de nuestro país, cuando se entremezclaba la fatiga de las camarillas franquistas, el fortalecimiento de la oposición moderada y la aparición del terrorismo de distinto signo. Pronto fue patente la imposibilidad del...

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