Dioses de bata blanca

Masculinidad no es sin nimo de hombres, sino de proceso social, estructura, cultura y subjetividad. No se trata de la expresi n m s o menos espont nea de los cuerpos masculinos, sino de c mo tales cuerpos encarnan pr cticas de g nero presentes en el tejido social; se trata de la historia que constituye posibilidades de sujetos, margina deseos y define identidades nunca intr nsecas a los cuerpos masculinos. Este libro aborda la construcci n de masculinidades en M xico, a partir de la diversidad de experiencias, significados e instituciones sobre el ser hombre, al utilizar reflexiones te ricas...

Despus de entregar un resumen general de las relaciones entre Mxico y Holanda en el siglo XIX, Los Pases Bajos, el petrleo y la Revolucin Mexicana, 1900-1950 profundiza en el desarrollo de los lazos polticos y econmicos en la tumultuosa primera mitad de e

This excellent history of Peru proposes and proves an entirely new thesis on its nineteenth century: the changes in its economy that might have led to a better future were undone by taxes and other demands at the national, provincial and local levels. The failure of Peru owes a good deal to wartime taxes and local tax farming of the countryside. Professor Christine Hunefeldt does for the mundane issue of taxation what she has already done for Peruvian slavery and women’s rights; she writes a new history based on the evolution of a tax structure that changed for the worse over time. This is...

A brave attempt at studying Phoenician colonization from an environmental standpoint. Excavations at the tell of Castillo de Dona Blanca included study of animal and fish bones, moluscs and shellfish. A final chapter puts the biological evidence in a wider context and concludes that this kind of evidence on its own is better applied to smaller, local questions.