Republicanas

Conspiración, intriga, corrupción, soborno, venganza... la historia de la República está sembrada de episodios que ponen de manifiesto un hecho fundamental: la lucha por la conquista del poder es un elemento decisivo. Tom Holland nos traslada a la época más apasionante de Roma, donde figuras de la talla de Cicerón o César conspiran para hacerse con el poder de la única superpotencia de la Tierra.

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El crimen que marcó el final de las torturas de la dictadura uruguaya. El 16 de abril de 1984, mientras en Uruguay se negociaba el regreso a la democracia luego de once años de dictadura, el médico uruguayo Vladimir Roslik, oriundo de la comunidad rusa de San Javier, murió como consecuencia de las torturas que un grupo de militares le infligió durante su detención en el cuartel n.° 9 de Río Negro. Su muerte fue motivo de alarma y conmoción en una sociedad que anhelaba el fin de una etapa terrible de la historia nacional. Este libro recorre los episodios más relevantes del...

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...