Anatomía de un imperio

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As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...

En este libro, el autor explora la construccion de la nacionalidad a traves de los deportes. Analiza dimensiones sociales y culturales de clase que estan reflejadas en las practicas deportivas; toma tres figuras predominantes de epocas distintas: Juan Manuel Gangio, campeon mundial del automovilismo; Carlos Monzon, boxeador, y Diego Armando Maradona, los tres salidos de estratos sociales marginados, y da cuenta de la heterogeneidad que el pais ha sabido albergar, y de la complejidad moral y social que lo atraviesa.

Primera parte de la serie "Del Paisaje, alma del Rincón de Ademuz", compilación de artículos de crónica, opinión, investigación y divulgación histórica sobre el Rincón de Ademuz, comarca valenciana situada al poniente de la Comunidad Valenciana, entre Cuenca y Teruel. La obra constituye la forma digital (pdf) de la versión en soporte papel (2008), y fue concebida a modo de homenaje en el VIIIº centenario de la conquista cristiana de la zona por Pedro II de Aragón, en 1210. Su estructura se organiza en torno a cinco grandes capítulos: Palabras previas, Del Rincón de Ademuz (con...