Del Campo Y De La Ciudad

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...

«La guerra civil ¿cómo pudo ocurrir? de Julián Marías, un texto palpitante, es una mirada serena, necesaria, moral, sobre la guerra: una visión responsable.» Juan Pablo Fusi

Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region as a whole, irrespective of religious and national divides. Braudel's new historiography rejected political history as the dominant discipline and espoused a 'total history' or a 'history from below' that would tell the story of the vast majority of humanity hitherto excluded from the grand...

Esta obra conmemora la victoria de la naci n mexicana y de la Rep blica liberal, sobre los afanes intervencionistas y mon rquicos que culminaron con la instauraci n del ef mero imperio de Maximiliano. Los testimonios que se incluyen proceden, en su mayor parte, de los liberales m s ilustres que defendieron la Rep blica: Benito Ju rez, Ignacio Manuel Altamirano, Ignacio Ram rez y Francisco Zarco, entre otros.