El Siglo XVII

In the sixteenth century, in the eyes of the ruling class, land, arable land, remained the basis of all prosperity. As the dignitary rose in rank, he acquired the rights to more and larger areas of real estate. Theoretically, nobody was the owner of the land. The land belonged to the collective owner, calpulli, to public institutions such as temples, or to the city itself. There was no private ownership of the land, there was collective ownership with individual right of use.

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Este libro, que reúne –a veces, refundidos o ampliados- textos anteriores del autor, trata de fronteras, y por tanto, sobre todo de Portugal. Su espíritu, su naturaleza, su impulso fronterizo fueron inseparables de una realidad nacional, más antigua y más inmóvil -en su territorio “continental”- que ninguna otra. Fronteras, en plural, porque hubo varias: la del aislamiento, cerrada y defensiva, en la Península; la de la proyección mundial por los caminos oceánicos, que logró construir tres imperios coloniales; la de su interiorización, sorprendida aquí en la dramática figura ...

1898 no fue únicamente la gran victoria de la nueva potencia imperialista que se representaba en los Estados Unidos, era también el derrumbe del vetusto y decadente colonialismo español. Comenzaba de manera más que significativa el nacimiento del nuevo siglo XX latinoamericano.