El siglo de los genocidios / The century of genocides

El pasado cambiante. Historiografía y capitalismo. Siglos XIX-XX suposa tant una anàlisi dels diversos enfocaments proposats sobre l'origen i desenvolupament del capitalisme com una reflexió sobre la dinàmica interna, en el seu context social, del treball dels historiadors. Als dos primers capítols, s'estableix un diàleg amb sociòlegs de la ciència, historiadors i especialistes d'altres dominis que tracten d'introduir-se en la lògica de les ciències i de la història en les seues formes d'enfrontar-se amb la realitat externa, sobretot sota les coordenades que marquen la societat i...

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires’ processes of colonization, the character of...

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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.