Repúblicas en armas

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...

El autor -premio Nacional de Historia- analiza el llamado estallido social chileno de octubre del 2019, no sólo como un estudio focalizado en lo inmediato o tratando de explicar sus causas contingentes, sino más bien entendiendo contextos sociales, económicos y políticos que están estrechamente ligados a los nuevos énfasis alcanzados por las transformaciones producidas a partir de la caída del muro de Berlín y el desplome del socialismo real; el triunfo del neoliberalismo y el libre mercado y los alcances, a todo nivel, de la nueva globalización.

Bartolomé Clavero, catedrático de Historia del derecho de la Universidad de Sevilla, nos ofrece un texto que es, a la vez, un descargo de conciencia personal, la recuperación de la memoria histórica de una familia que prosperó a la sombra de la dictadura y, sobre todo, una elocuente denuncia, no sólo de los crímenes franquistas, sino, sobre todo, de la desmemoria posterior, empeñada en hacernos olvidar que "buena parte de la clase pudiente hoy en España debe su posición a la sangre y al despojo", como consecuencia de haberse alzado "con la victoria en la guerra y el botín en la...

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