Nuevos documentos de 1948

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...

Tommaso Campanella (1568-1639) es una de esas figuras cuya vida parece extraída de una novela. Hijo de un calabrés analfabeto, ingresó en la orden dominica y se convirtió en un filósofo de fama internacional. Escribió una vasta y densa obra cuya mayor parte pudo redactar gracias a su prodigiosa memoria durante los treinta años que pasó en las prisiones de Padua, Roma y Nápoles por herejía. En prisión, escribió, con un aplomo sorprendente, cartas a los sucesivos papas, cardenales influyentes, reyes de España, archidu-ques austriacos y también a Galileo. Su fama como conocedor de...

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...

Los rollos del mar Muerto es una notable lección de periodismo. Concebido originalmente como un reportaje que se publicó por entregas, fue tomando paulatinamente la forma de un tratado sobre los grandes temas bíblicos. En esta nueva edición ampliada, el lector tiene al fin la posibilidad de conocer completa esta disquisición de uno de los escritores más capaces del siglo.