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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...

Este es un estudio sobre la etimología del topónimo “Patagonia” y del gentilicio “patagones”, que hoy utilizamos para designar esas tierras y ese pueblo.

Con el objetivo de pormenorizar las especificidades de la represión femenina de posguerra, se detalla como se aplicó la Ley de Responsabilidades Políticas sobre las mujeres valencianas. Así mismo, a partir de los procedimientos seguidos contra ellas, se profundiza en el funcionamiento de esta jurisdicción especial y sus problemas, los límites de las cifras que se desprenden de la documentación o los efectos de esta ley en el día a día de las afectadas, entre otros aspectos. Para intentar ofrecer explicaciones más complejas y globales, se ha apostado por un intenso esfuerzo...

This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a fascinating tale of survival against the highest odds, and it highlights Native Americans and their interactions with the newcomers in a manner seldom seen in writings of the period. In this...