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From Tribute to Communal Sovereignty
From Tribute to Communal Sovereignty examines both continuity and change over the last five centuries for the indigenous peoples of central western Mexico, providing the first sweeping and comprehensive history of this important region in Mesoamerica. The continuities elucidated concern ancestral territorial claims that date back centuries and reflect the stable geographic locations occupied by core populations of indigenous language–speakers in or near their pre-Columbian territories since the Postclassical period, from the thirteenth to late fifteenth centuries. A common theme of this volume is the strong cohesive forces present, not only in the colonial construction of Christian village...
Culture as Soft Power
This book contributes to bridge the gap between different scholarly communities interested in the entanglements of culture and politics in the international arena. It sheds light on existing connections in their parallel evolution with a thorough literature review, complemented by several case studies showing the fruitful character of their interdisciplinary mobilisation. Through the notions of cultural relations, intellectual cooperation and cultural diplomacy, the book draws on a soft power perspective to offer a shared, novel, and interdisciplinary theoretical framework to approach cultural institutions and organisations that have been previously examined as isolated objects: for example, cultural institutes, international organisations, literary magazines, and literary contests. The interdisciplinary nature of this volume justifies the relevance of its content for scholars working in the history of international relations, international cultural relations and intellectual history, comparative literature, sociology of literature and global literary studies.
Los constituyentes
Sin desconocer la importancia que tiene todo texto constitucional, el presente libro propone volver al estudio de los Congresos Hispanoamericanos de la época de las independencias con la idea de hacer visible el activismo político y el quehacer legislativo de los diputados que conformaron los primeros cuerpos colegiados representativos de la soberanía nacional. Para ello, centra su atención en actores reales, hombres de carne y hueso, imbuidos de motivaciones y sentimientos, educados en valores y creencias, en un contexto de crisis internacional y circunstancias históricas concretas. Sirviéndose de la prosopografía, la genealogía y la biografía intelectual, analiza a grupos e indivi...
Revolutionary Ideology and Political Destiny in Mexico, 1928-1934
Làzaro Càrdenas and Adalberto Tejeda, veterans of the Revolution and prominent governors of Michoacan and Veracruz from 1928 to 1932, strived to make Mexico a modern and just state on the basis of the revolutionary Constitution. Three key obstacles confronted them: the conservative approach of the political Center; the political weakness of their own power base; and the great opposing power of the farmers and their supporting elements, especially the Church and the army. This book discusses the different avenues to reform these leaders took and their short- and long-term implications. Càrdenas sought to strengthen his position through the ruling party (PNR), while reinforcing local agrari...
Political Intelligence and the Creation of Modern Mexico, 1938-1954
"Analyzes the impact of the opposition candidacies in the Mexican presidential elections of 1940, 1946, and 1952 on the internal discipline and electoral dominance of the ruling Partido de la Revoluciâon Mexicana (PRM) and its successor, the Partido Revolucionario Institucional (PRI)"--Provided by publisher.
Dutch and Portuguese in Western Africa
More than fifty years have passed since Charles Boxer wrote his major works on the Dutch-Portuguese rivalries in the Atlantic and attributed the successful takeover of North-eastern Brazil, Angola, São Tomé and the Gold Coast forts by the WIC to the superior naval power of the Dutch.This book reexamines the systems of settlement and trade of these States and their subjects in Western Africa and the Atlantic, offering a fresh insight on discussions about the success and failure of Dutch and Portuguese States, Companies and Merchants in the seventeenth-century-Atlantic.
Historia de la Universidad Michoacana: 1960-1966
La Universidad Michoacana de San Nicolás de Hidalgo, desde su fundación dada el 30 de mayo de 1918 hasta los tiempos actuales, ha transitado por momentos interesantes, de especial lucidez en su organización académica y también de rompimiento en las relaciones universitarias y de intervención de los Poderes públicos en su vida interna. Un tramo histórico que da cuenta con mucha precisión de la afirmación anterior es el que corrió de 1960 a 1966. En abril de 1960, la comunidad universitaria (estudiantes y profesores) emprendió un paro de labores para exigir al Gobierno del Estado mejoras materiales y un incremento presupuestal, que culminó con la sugerencia meditada y ampliamente ...
Internationalism, Imperialism and the Formation of the Contemporary World
This volume offers innovative insights into and approaches to the multiple historical intersections between distinct modalities of internationalism and imperialism during the twentieth century, across a range of contexts. Bringing together scholars from diverse theoretical, methodological and geographical backgrounds, the book explores an array of fundamental actors, institutions and processes that have decisively shaped contemporary history and the present. Among other crucial topics, it considers the expansion in the number and scope of activities of international organizations and its impact on formal and informal imperial polities, as well as the propagation of developmentalist ethos and discourses, relating them to major historical processes such as the growing institutionalization of international scrutiny in the interwar years or, later, the emerging global Cold War.
Mexican Travel Writing
This book is a detailed study of salient examples of Mexican travel writing from the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. While scholars have often explored the close relationship between European or North American travel writing and the discourse of imperialism, little has been written on how postcolonial subjects might relate to the genre. This study first traces the development of a travel-writing tradition based closely on European imperialist models in mid-nineteenth-century Mexico. It then goes on to analyse how the narrative techniques of postmodernism and the political agenda of postcolonialism might combine to help challenge the genre's imperialist tendencies in late twentieth-century works of travel writing, focusing in particular on works by writers Juan Villoro, Héctor Perea and Fernando Solana Olivares.
Historia económica y social de la Compañía y Cooperativa Minera "Las Dos Estrellas," en El Oro y Tlalpujahua, 1898-1959
Esta obra muestra rasgos de gran originalidad en su temática y enfoque, además de presentar aportes significativos para la historia –tanto de la minería de la plata y oro como de las tradicionales empresas mineras mexicanas dedicadas a los metales preciosos- útiles para reinterpretar la historia económica regional de México de fines de siglo XIX a mediados del XX. Por primera vez contamos con la historia de una empresa minera explotadora de oro ubicada en el centro de México- una de las regiones mineras que destacaron en la época virreinal-, que desde finales del siglo XIX se modernizó al influjo de las inversiones de franceses residentes y pervivió hasta fines de los años treinta del siglo XX, como un ejemplo de brote industrial minero en zonas tradicionales. Demuestra Uribe que fue en las localidades de El Oro y Tlalpujua donde surgieron modernas formas capitalistas de producción y se aplicó exitosamente la tecnología de punta en los antiguos procesos de extracción y beneficio del oro y de la plata; demuestra también que la Compañía Minera “Las Dos Estrellas”, fue de las pocas que tuvo éxito en su área y que logró sobrevivir por casi cuatro décadas.
