La sociabilidad perdida

Pilar Máynez presenta una selección de los textos, extraídos de la Historia general de las cosas de Nueva España de fray Bernardino de Sahagún, sobre las fiestas, los rituales y las supersticiones de los antiguos mexicanos. Ante la imaginación del lector desfilarán la indumentaria de los participantes en las ceremonias, sus formas de abstinencia y los diferentes sacrificios que hacían cada mes. Asimismo se enterará de cómo concebían el universo los antiguos mexicanos y del destino que les deparaba el signo calendárico de su nacimiento. El pensamiento mágico y la profunda...

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

Sensacional ensayo que avanza a través de la «Filosofía», la «Literatura», la «Historia» y, en definitiva, de la «Cultura» de las sociedades poscoloniales para explicar la forma en la que Occidente ha impuesto su hegemonía cultural ellas.

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...