Un país de chiste

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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...

En 1948, W&W, Wilhelm y Wolfgang Mommsen iniciaron una fuerte disputa con su primo Konrad. Éste, junto a su tío Alfred Weber, había hecho pública una cláusula testamentaria del abuelo, Theodor Mommsen, en la que el ganador del premio Nobel declaraba que no sentía aprecio por los alemanes. Se desarrolló, pues, una disputa familiar que refleja la polémica que dividía al conjunto del pueblo alemán. Peter Köpf ha descubierto fuentes documentales hasta ahora desconocidas en los legados de los protagonistas, que incluyen muchas notas autobiográficas. Y a partir de éstas, en lugar de...

La autora asume el desafío de ofrecer una nueva lectura de la vida y vicisitudes de Francisco de Miranda, desde el momento en que abandona Venezuela, con apenas 20 años, hasta el triste desenlace que representó para su vida el fin de la Primera República, su entrega a las autoridades españolas, la prisión y su posterior fallecimiento en La Carraca. El libro comienza con el acontecimiento del cual deriva su título: un incómodo y escandaloso incidente promovido por los criollos principales de la capital contra su padre, Sebastián Miranda, tenido como individuo de inferior condición y...