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La vida política en Portugal ha seguido una trayectoria propia en la historia europea. En este libro, cuatro destacados especialistas portugueses en la historia y la política contemporáneas sintetizan con sus trabajos la investigación más actual. A su vez, otros tantos especialistas españoles comentan estas aportaciones. Fátima Bonifácio y Fernando Rosas ofrecen una historia de Portugal de los siglos XIX y XX estructurada en torno a la acción política; mientras que Manuel Villaverde Cabral y André Freire se preocupan por la calidad de la democracia portuguesa, el primero atendiendo ...

From reviews of the Spanish edition: “Meyer’s perceptive commentary on Mexican power politics presents new insights into the petroleum lobbies in Mexico City and Washington. With unbiased empathy he shows the validity of Mexico’s complaints about foreigners’ deriving an overabundance of profit from a nonrenewable natural resource. He understands United States history and never abuses his license to criticize.” —Hispanic American Historical Review “This useful addition to the literature on twentieth-century Mexican–United States diplomatic relations is a scholarly work, worthy...

Una de las culturas antiguas más notables de Sudamérica es, sin lugar a dudas, la civilización inca. Reinaron sobre el imperio más grande de Sudamérica; no solo eso, su imperio era también el más grande del mundo en ese momento.

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...