La nación cubana y Estados Unidos

Le vingt-quatre contributions ici réunies entendent rendre compte des acquis de l'histoire religieuse contemporaine en France et en Espagne. Une première partie analyse les enjeux méthodologiques et théoriques d'une histoire religieuse qui se fait et s'écrit au sein de sociétés sécularisées. Le poids de la tradition de l'Église, et aussi celui des luttes politiques pour en réduire l'influence, dessinent les configurations idéologiques où s'inscrivent les travaux de sociologie historique religieuse. Une seconde partie aborde les phénomènes propre à l'Église catholique en...

An lisis y reflexi n acerca de los factores que contribuyeron a la supresi n de la esclavitud en el Caribe espa ol en general y, en particular en Cuba, en torno a la cual est n dedicados la mayor a de los textos presentados.

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

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...