El Bandolerismo: Estudio Social Y Memorias Históricas Por Julian de Zugasti, |...

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...

Michel de Montaigne afirmaba que «un homme honnête, c’est un homme mêlé». Entre la fórmula del filósofo y las realidades de la sociedad colonial media, sin embargo, un abismo. La presente obra, que habla del encuentro de los Mundos, de la formación de los grupos coloniales y de la circulación de los libros, revela que las situaciones de movilidad entremezclan las identidades hasta el punto de engendrar la sospecha. Tanto los indios, al entrar en contacto con los españoles, como los mestizos, como los europeos emigrados, se convierten, en mayor o menor medida, en «hombres...

Aquesta és la biografia de l’home que va aterrir la cristiandat hispànica cap a l’any mil: Muhammad ibn Abi Amir, conegut com Almansor. El llibre tracta d’explicar com es va convertir en el veritable amo d’un califat omeia l’autoritat del qual s’estenia per al-Andalus i el Magrib occidental, per què va sembrar el terror entre els cristians i per quins motius va desaparèixer tan bruscament la dinastia que havia fundat. Per fer-ho, reviu les expedicions empreses en nom de la guerra santa i els problemes que van afectar Còrdova a l'inici del segle XI. Lluny de ser una simple...

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