Historia del mayorazgo de Chasna en la Isla de Tenerife

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...

Sin utopía no hay progreso, y el europeísmo es la utopía y el ideal de una Europa unida que en tiempos pretéritos inspiró tanto a intelectuales como a políticos, y que hoy se ha encarnado en la Unión Europea. Todos los europeos nos identificamos profundamente con nuestras naciones y tradiciones. Pero estamos urgidos a fortalecer nuestro tronco común y extender nues..

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

La figura del "espadón", el militar que interviene en la política, no fue un fenómeno únicamente español como tantas veces se ha pensado. Tras la experiencia napoleónica, desde las primeras décadas del siglo XIX, tanto en Europa como en América se fue forjando la imagen mítica del general heroico, siempre a lomos de un caballo, fuerte, ejemplar, abnegado, guardián del honor y la gloria de la nación, defensor de la libertad, pero también de la autoridad y el orden. Cualidades que convirtieron a determinados generales en líderes carismáticos, mesiánicos, tanto en la guerra como...