La gran década nacional, o, Relación histórica de la guerra de reforma, intervención extranjera y gobierno del archiduque Maximiliano, 1857-1867

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.

¿Acaso ustedes no memorizan un poco de poesía para parar la masacre? interpeló el “indio” al “hombre blanco”. Este libro surge como un escudo poético para detener esa masacre. Las comillas irrumpieron en la traducción del poema del árabe al castellano ofreciéndose como munición poética para hacer frente a la muerte. No obstante, en el epígrafe, que cita la famosa carta del jefe Seattle, asevera que no hay muerte, sino un cambio de mundos.

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En Stalingrado se libró la batalla más decisiva de la segunda guerra mundial. Su historia ha sido contada muchas veces, pero nunca como en este libro de Antony Beevor, que ha sido elogiado por especialistas como Orlando Figes y Robert Conquest, y que se ha convertido en un best seller internacional. Beevor ha llevado a cabo una investigación minuciosa en los archivos rusos y alemanes, sacando de ellos datos desconocidos, y ha interrogado a supervivientes de los dos bandos para reconstruir la experiencia vivida de una inmensa tragedia. Ello le ha permitido construir un relato del que Dirk...