Estudio de la Costa Colombiana del Pacifico (Classic Reprint)

Studies in Spanish American regional history have, as yet, made little attempt to incorporate the struggles for independence within the context of provincial society and politics viewed over the broader period that spans the late colonial and early national experience of Latin America. This book attempts a new perspective: it emphasises the provincial milieu and popular participation in its varied forms, often ambiguous and contradictory. The central aim is to examine social conflicts, chiefly in the Mexican provinces of Puebla, Guadalajara, Michoacán, and Guanajuato from the middle of the...

En este recorrido por el siglo XX sevillano, escrito con perspectiva y estilo periodísticos, como unos modernos anales, de fácil lectura y consulta, se ofrecen unas crónicas del pasado más reciente, tan cercano en el tiempo y tan lejano en la memoria colectiva sometida a la vorágine informativa de nuestra época.

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La idea que nos ha sido legada de la independencia de Estados Unidos es la de una rebelión contenida, justa y sujeta a unos cauces ordenados, protagonizada por patriotas en defensa de sus nobles ideales frente a un imperio opresor que gozaba del monopolio de la violencia, un relato inspirador y estimulante que los fundadores hicieron todo lo posible por alimentar tras la guerra. Sin embargo, como el historiador Holger Hoock muestra en esta exhaustivamente documentada y bellamente escrita crónica del nacimiento de los Estados Unidos, la revolución no fue únicamente una batalla en la que...