Breve historia de Oaxaca

The essays in this volume, taken together, span the era of British history from 1780 to the present that has engrossed the attention of Brian Harrison in a career of more than fifty years. In keeping with his diverse interests, they vary widely in subject matter. Yet each contributes, in some fashion, to an appreciation of the complexities of reform in modern Britain. Throughout his career Harrison has demonstrated an unwavering interest in social movements and pressure groups. He has analysed the organisation of reform movements and their bases of support; explored the aspirations and...

Este libro viene a ser el testamento intelectual de Charles Tilly, maestro indiscutible en los campos de la historia social y de la sociología, quien quiso sintetizar en estas páginas su amplia e innovadora obra de estudio de los movimientos de masas, cuya evolución sigue aquí desde sus orígenes en las protestas populares de la Inglaterra de mediados del siglo XVIII, a través de su expansión mundial como un instrumento de transformación social en los siglos XIX y XX -con su culminación en los movimientos de protesta de 1989, de Polonia a Tiananmen-, hasta los profundos cambios que la ...

As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...

Exposicion y revision de los conceptos tradicionales de cultura, haciendo una reconsideracion de lo que actualmente se entiende por el termino en las distintas disciplinas y areas del conocimiento tanto en lo academico como en lo mundano.