Una hacienda de los Jesuitas en el México colonial

En el tomo 4 se examinan de las ideas y procesos que nos explican cómo llegaron al Constituyente de 1916-1917 temas como el proyecto agrario y sus nociones de justicia, el lugar de los extranjeros en el nuevo Estado o la cuestión político-constitucional del anhelo de un presidencialismo fuerte.

This book deals with the evangelization of Spanish-speaking America between the European conquest and independence. The study investigates the concepts and strategies of catechesis, the general conditions of Church law and national politics as well as the prerequisites and conditions on the part of the Indians. New and specific forms of mutual understanding, of mediation and resistance developed through the transfer of European knowledge to a second geographical area and through the contact of cultures and religions. These new forms evolved beyond the sphere of religion and determine cultural ...

La obra indaga sobre la construcción histórica de la concepción del crimen pasional en un estudio sobre Colombia durante el periodo 1890-1936, tiempo de vigencia del Código Penal de 1890, en lo que concierne a la naturalización del delito, los dispositivos discursivos, las ocurrencias, el uso de la violencia y la interpretación normativa. Aborda aspectos jurídicos en su controversia frente a la inimputabilidad y atenuación de la pena. Igualmente, estudia los saberes decimonónicos involucrados en la penalización, como son las ciencias criminales y la medicina legal, y analiza las...

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...