An Account of the Conquest of Peru

El derecho a imponer tributos y el de acuñar o emitir moneda han sido tradicionalmente dos de las principales prerrogativas de la soberanía política que la autoridad siempre ha tratado de ejercer en régimen de monopolio, de acuerdo con los principios constitucionales que regulan en cada época la obligación a contribuir y la forma de acuñación o emisión de la moneda. Fisco y moneda aparecen estrechamente unidos a lo largo de la Historia y a menudo la política monetaria ha sido puesta al servicio de la política fiscal. Este libro recoge los resultados de recientes investigaciones...

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...

La intención de Weckmann en este material es aclarar el concepto erróneo de que Brasil surgió ya en plena Edad Moderna, ya que al hacer una acuciosa investigación sobre la herencia medieval de México, no concibe que el Brasil constituya excepción a la tendencia general que apunta en la historia latinoamericana.

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