La rebelión Maji Maji:

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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...

Esta obra colectiva estudia los cambios revolucionarios que se produjeron en el mundo hispano durante los siglos XIX y XX. Los autores presentan una magnífica perspectiva histórica que engloba dialécticamente la relación entre España y la pluralidad de las repúblicas americanas surgidas a partir de estos movimientos.

En plena Segunda Guerra Mundial y en la Francia de Vichy, Marc Bloch elaboró desde la clandestinidad una de las más apasionadas, hermosas y sofisticadas defensas del trabajo del historiador y del valor de la historia, convertida ya en un clásico. Pero lejos de ser un elogio acrítico, es también una denuncia del peso de la herencia que había dado forma a la historia hasta el momento, como la del positivismo y sus excesos cienticifistas, o de la ciega resistencia a incluir otras disciplinas —tales como la economía, la psicología, la sociología o la lingüística— en sus...