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The need to protect the physical and cultural environment in which we operate is the logical consequence of the dramatic transformations witnessed in recent years due to rapid urban development. This book seeks new ways to understand the natural and historic patrimony, increasing the evidences that we use to define our cultural heritage. The importance of this has been increasing in recent years leading to the creation of legal categories by the "European Landscape Convention". In Toledo, as a result of a peculiar historical evolution that has prevented the existence of large urban change...

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Este libro está integrado por un largo ensayo del autor sobre las condiciones de vida y de trabajo en las haciendas porfirianas, y por nueve testimonios, que se presentan en apéndices, acerca de las condiciones sociales imperantes en las haciendas mexicanas a fines del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX. El autor analiza las variantes regionales en las condiciones de trabajo y busca determinar la difusión e importancia del peonaje por deudas y las circunstancias en que se empleaba este peonaje.

James Lockhart hace un recorrido a partir de 1545 hasta 1770 para descifrar usos y costumbres, organizacion politica y social, rasgos culturales como la escritura, las ciencias y las artes, asi como la vida religiosa de los nahuas, para situarlos como una de las culturas mas ricas en cuanto a presencia historica y simbologia etnica, todo lo cual le confiere el rango de protagonista audaz del encuentro de dos mundos.