Venezuela y la contrarrevolución cubana

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...

La lucha por abolir ominoso principio de los treinta: “capitanes extranjeros ganan en dólares, copilotos mexicanos ganan en pesos” y otras injusticias son narradas en la Historia social de ASPA de México, el sindicato de pilotos aviadores. El primer tomo abarca desde la creación de la Liga de Pilotos y el Colegio de Pilotos —ambos precursores de la actual ASPA de México— hasta la fusión de Aerovías Guest con Aeronaves de México. Todo ello en el contexto de los gobiernos de Lázaro Cárdenas a Adolfo López Mateos y los movimientos sociales de la época. Se relatan las pugnas...

"A fascinating and beautifully argued interpretation of how the American war in Southeast Asia affected Chicano communities. The author provides the most complete and well-documented study to date of this important chapter in U.S. history and its impact on an ethnic group with long-standing traditions of military service, assimilation, and resistance to injustice. Oropeza's book is what students of the Chicano Movement, especially the Mexican American role in antiwar activities during the Vietnam War period, have been waiting for."—George Mariscal, author of Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano...

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