The Archives of Cuba

Solo la muerte o la cárcel son capaces de arrancarles su poder Los «grandes» líderes sindicales de México son lo que parecen ylo que aparentan: viejos dictadores, caciques depredadores, cínicosderrochadores. Una relación perversa con el poder les ha permitidoforjar una gerontocracia tan profundamente antidemocrática queno admite crítica, y se adapta a cualquier escenario, situación oideología. Por ellos, en México parece practicarse una sola políticalaboral: la del cinismo, abundancia para unos cuantos privilegiados; pobreza, carestía e inflación para los más.Los amos de la...

Este libro viene a ser el testamento intelectual de Charles Tilly, maestro indiscutible en los campos de la historia social y de la sociología, quien quiso sintetizar en estas páginas su amplia e innovadora obra de estudio de los movimientos de masas, cuya evolución sigue aquí desde sus orígenes en las protestas populares de la Inglaterra de mediados del siglo XVIII, a través de su expansión mundial como un instrumento de transformación social en los siglos XIX y XX -con su culminación en los movimientos de protesta de 1989, de Polonia a Tiananmen-, hasta los profundos cambios que la ...

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...