From Iberia to Diaspora

Una obra clásica que ofrece al lector una visión apasionante de la historia, la política y la cultura de la isla del Caribe y que, en esta nueva edición, revisa la historia reciente de Cuba en una esclarecedora introducción que plantea la tesis del cambio y la posibilidad de que nos encontremos ante una importante encrucijada de la historia de este país. La isla de Cuba fue, desde la segunda mitad del siglo XVIII, un territorio clave para el control del tráfico marítimo de las rutas hacia el Nuevo Mundo. Su privilegiada situación geográfica y la mezcla de culturas y tradiciones han...

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...

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El tercer volumen contin a la narraci n de los problemas de expansi n y defensa de la Nueva Espa a: la expedici n a la isla Espa ola de Santo Domingo, la rebeli n de indios en Nueva Vizcaya, la conquista de Nayarit, las campa as contra corsarios en Yucat n y conquista del Pet n Itz , el mot n en Valladolid de Yucat n, y las expediciones Para desalojar a los ingleses de la isla de T rminos y de Belice.