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El Tránsito en la Ciudad de México. Ayer y hoy, 1922-1942
Un álbum que no sólo ofrece una perspectiva visual de la evolución de la capital de México, sino que también invita a reflexionar sobre los desafíos urbanos y de movilidad que enfrentaba en ese entonces y que continúa afrontando hoy en día.
El Libro de Testamentos de Culhuacán: Vida y Muerte entre los Nahuas del México Central, siglo XVI
Esta publicación da a conocer los testamentos de Culhuacán encontrados en diferentes archivos; ofrece una muestra de los mismos y destaca su significación como testimonios que proporcionan información de carácter cultural e histórico.
Open Veins of Latin America
Since its U.S. debut a quarter-century ago, this brilliant text has set a new standard for historical scholarship of Latin America. It is also an outstanding political economy, a social and cultural narrative of the highest quality, and perhaps the finest description of primitive capital accumulation since Marx. Rather than chronology, geography, or political successions, Eduardo Galeano has organized the various facets of Latin American history according to the patterns of five centuries of exploitation. Thus he is concerned with gold and silver, cacao and cotton, rubber and coffee, fruit, hides and wool, petroleum, iron, nickel, manganese, copper, aluminum ore, nitrates, and tin. These are...
The Courtier and the King
"This is a little jewel of a book. Beautifully and elegantly written, it examines the political career of an important figure at the court of Philip II of Spain. It is political biography in the best sense of the term."--Richard Kagan, author of Lucrecia's Dreams
Diplomatic Days
Reproduction of the original: Diplomatic Days by Edith O ́Shaughnessy
The Body of the Conquistador
This fascinating history explores the dynamic relationship between overseas colonisation in Spanish America and the bodily experience of eating.
Our Word is Our Weapon
In this landmark book, Seven Stories Press presents a powerful collection of literary, philosophical, and political writings of the masked Zapatista spokesperson, Subcomandante Insurgente Marcos. Introduced by Nobel Prize winner José Saramago, and illustrated with beautiful black and white photographs, Our Word Is Our Weapon crystallizes "the passion of a rebel, the poetry of a movement, and the literary genius of indigenous Mexico." Marcos first captured world attention on January 1, 1994, when he and an indigenous guerrilla group calling themselves "Zapatistas" revolted against the Mexican government and seized key towns in Mexico's southernmost state of Chiapas. In the six years that hav...
Expectations Unfulfilled: Norwegian Migrants in Latin America, 1820-1940
In Expectations Unfulfilled scholars from Argentina, Belgium, Brazil, Mexico, Norway, Spain and Sweden study the experiences of Norwegian migrants in Latin America between the Wars of Independence and World War II.
