La genealogía cautiva

Actas del seminario doctoral de verano, -Memorias y Lugares de Memoria de Europa-, organizado por la Fundacion Academia Europea de Yuste con la colaboracion de la Red SEGEI en el Real Monasterio de Yuste y Palacio de Carlos V, en Extremadura, Espana (del 6 al 9 de julio de 2009).<BR> Actes du seminaire doctoral d'ete - Memoires et lieux de memoire en Europe - organise par la Fondation Academie europeenne de Yuste avec la collaboration du reseau SEGEI, au Monastere royal de Yuste et palais de Charles Quint en Estremadure, Espagne (du 6 au 9 juillet 2009).<BR> Proceedings of the doctoral...

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.

En esta compilacion se dan a conocer los esfuerzos y estrategias de la comunidad judia para ir superando los problemas economicos: capacitacion y educacion ciudadanas pueden coadyuvar a superar el estado de pobreza predominante. Los avances, aunque lentos, han sido significativos en paises como Argentina, Venezuela y Chile.

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...