Historias de España contemporánea

El presente libro surge del interés por reconstruir las trayectorias de las poblaciones indígenas, reconstituidas desde prácticas estatales y a partir de sus propias estrategias de participación como actores sociales y políticos de las sociedades americanas decimonónicas.

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El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior, is the earliest Euro-American trade route of cultures and commerce in the United States. It spanned about 1,800 miles from Mexico City, where the road originated, to Santa Fe, in New Mexico. For three centuries, this Spanish colonial road followed a network of ancient Native American footpaths and trails that followed the wide expanse of the Rio Grande valley. There were parajes, or campgrounds, along the way for travelers, and early Spanish settlements were established too. Some of the towns and villages are now modern cities, ...

Durante la Guerra de la Independencia, miles de españoles de toda clase y condición social abandonaron los campos y trabajos que les proporcionaban sustento y se organizaron subversiva y espontáneamente, al margen de las viejas y deslegitimadas instituciones de poder, en grupos heterogéneos que castigaron una y otra vez durante años al hasta entonces invencible ejército francés. Al frente de esa gran aportación española a la moderna táctica militar "-a guerra de guerrillas- se situó toda una generación de líderes surgidos del pueblo llano que con escasos efectivos consiguió...