Moneda y Nación. Del federalismo al centralismo económico en Colombia

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...

Un historiador todos los días, o casi todos, tiene el compromiso permanente con el oficio de analizar el pasado; tales son las impresiones que debe producir la lectura de este libro sobre la sensibilidad y el pensamiento de los venezolanos a través del tiempo. Sus páginas reúnen la mayoría de las monografías breves que el autor ha escrito hasta ahora, sobre los temas que han puesto en movimiento la cabeza de nuestros antepasados y sobre sus respuestas ante las solicitudes del entorno, desde el período colonial. Asuntos como las tribulaciones de una parda desconocida que ha perdido sin...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la seretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

A bestselling historian recounts the epic clash that ended the Renaissance and pushed Islam to the gates of Vienna In Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston, Jr., brought two epochal events in the struggle between Islam and Christendom to readers eager to understand the roots of the present-day conflict. With his unwavering eye for detail, Reston now weaves a captivating narrative that examines a pivotal period in that centuries- long war, which found Europe at its most vulnerable and Islam on the attack. This saga of colliding worlds is propelled by two astonishing young...