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This study re-examines and contextualises Eduard Seler's investigations in the Chaculá-Region, Guatemala. A new study of the Ethnological Museum Berlin's materials from the region, including previously undocumented ceramics, reveals a chronology suggesting that the major settlements were occupied from the Late Classic to the Early Postclassic.

Les célébrations du bicentenaire de la guerre d'Indépendance ont eu un écho considérable en Espagne et ont suscité une révision profonde de la lecture du long conflit qui embrasa la Péninsule de 1808 à 1814. Cette guerre apparaît désormais dans toute sa complexité : guerre patriotique de résistance à l'occupant français, mais aussi guerre civile et révolution. La mémoire et les mythes qu'elle a suscités ont joué un rôle de tout premier plan dans la construction de la nation espagnole par le libéralisme. Ce dernier apparaît désormais comme fondamentalement pluriel et...

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...