Érase una vez México

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...

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Este libro habla del carácter de las represiones y el terror de la Guerra Civil; la idea de España en las izquierdas, sobre todo en Azaña, y sus repercusiones sobre la República y la marcha de la guerra; la actitud de la derecha ante la República y su deriva política; los efectos de la intervención exterior, en particular la satelización del Frente Popular por la Unión Soviética, entre otros temas.

El océano como paisaje: Pageant of the Pacific (Esplendor del Pacífico) es un estudio sobre los mapas murales que Miguel Covarrubias haría para la Golden Gate International Exhibition de 1939. Como señala la autora, Mónica Ramírez, el discurso oficial de este evento cultural y político afirmaba su propia creación como una forma de celebrar la novedosa tecnología utilizada en la construcción del emblemático puente. Desde una perspectiva mucho más amplia, se trataba sobre todo de situar a la ciudad de San Francisco como el centro de una expansión por parte de los Estados Unidos...