Las disyuntivas del Estado y de la Iglesia en la consolidación del orden liberal, México, 1856-1910

Durante el siglo XX, la guerra moderna convencional fue sustituida por los combates irregulares, las tácticas de guerrilla y la contrainsurgencia. Ninguna obra refleja mejor esta mutación que este incisivo clásico de la literatura militar. En su condición de prisioneros de guerra en un campo de Indochina, una unidad de paracaidistas franceses estudia las tácticas políticas y militares de sus captores del Viet Minh. Tras la liberación y regreso a Francia, se sentirán alienados ante la falta de empatía de la sociedad y optarán por unirse a una unidad de paracaidistas en Argelia para...

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...

Presents a history of Classical antiquity and features illustrations, maps, diagrams, and statistical tables.

As Mexico faces the trials of economic growth and development, the country must overcome some tough historical challenges and rethink its own image. Are we really the “country in permanent crisis” we seem to think we are? Or have we evolved? In these pages, the authors examine the main aspects that define a developing modern society: education, security, employment, legality, the relationship between the ruling class and civil society, etc., and they point out specific areas where change is possible. Regreso al futuro constitutes an essential reflection on the power of a country on the...