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Han transcurrido más de 470 años desde la fecha oficial de las apariciones y es un hecho que el icono de la Virgen de Guadalupe es uno de los símbolos de unión más fuertes del pueblo mexicano. SI bien han surgido diversas discusiones a lo largo de la historia, nadie nunca jamás se ha atrevido a dudar de la relación estrecha existente entre el surgimiento de la nación mexicana, de su sentimiento nacional y el llamado “fenómeno guadalupano”.

This book offers an innovative perspective on the ever-widening gap between the poor and the state in Latin American politics. It presents a comprehensive analysis of the main social movement that mobilized the poor and unemployed people of Argentina to end neoliberalism and to attain incorporation into a more inclusive and equal society. The piquetero (picketer) movement is the largest movement of unemployed people in the world. This movement has transformed Argentine politics to the extent of becoming part of the governing coalition for more than a decade. Rossi argues that the movement has been part of a long-term struggle by the poor for socio-political participation in the polity after having been excluded by authoritarian regimes and neoliberal reforms. He conceptualizes this process as a wave of incorporation, exploring the characteristics of this major redefinition of politics in Latin America.

The destruction and defiance that swirled around Australia s embrace of the world s nuclear order Though a nonnuclear state Australia was embroiled in the military and civilian nuclear energy programs of numerous global powers across the twentieth century From uranium extraction to nuclear testing Australia s lands became sites of imperial exploitation under the guise of national development The continent was subject to rampant nuclear colonialism However this history is not just one of imposition Aboriginal communities bearing the brunt of these processes have persistently resisted reclaiming their rights to Country and demanding reparations As Jessica Urwin shows extraction weapons testing and nuclear waste disposal have caused incalculable physical spiritual and cultural harm to Aboriginal communities and lands Yet Indigenous peoples all over the world have not only survived nuclear colonialism but challenged it time and time again Tracking the colonial mechanisms Australia used to pursue a nuclear industry Urwin simultaneously highlights how Aboriginal peoples refused and reshaped those same mechanisms over time A groundbreaking book Contaminated Country reveals how Australia s deep nuclear past has been entangled with colonialism locally nati

State led conservation transformed Gansu s landscape rural communities bore the costs From the 1940s to the 1960s soil and water conservation measures transformed both the arid erosion prone environment of China s Loess Plateau and the lives of rural people Remaking the Earth Exhausting the People explores how the Chinese state imposed the burden of conservation on rural communities and how the communities navigated those demands Weaving together archival research and oral history interviews Micah S Muscolino demonstrates that for the inhabitants of China s countryside conservation programs became part of an extractive mode of accumulation that intensified labor demands and entailed loss of control over resources Muscolino recounts how changes to the physical environment played out in villages on farms and within households His multitiered investigation uncovers the relationship between the forces of nature Chinese state policies and the embodied experiences of rural men and women The book also highlights the contestations and compromises that the state s environmental interventions triggered in rural society By illustrating how state building and revolution in modern China altered human relationships with the natural world Muscolino shows that examini

A compelling study for readers interested in the environmental history of Latin America this book sheds light on the complex history of the Ecuadorian rainforest and the impact oil development This title is part of the Flip it Open Programme and may also be available Open Access Check our website Cambridge Core for details

"Este libro narra, con la letra y la imagen, diversas formas en que los pasados de México (el universo prehispánico, la Conquista, la evangelización y la era virreinal) gravitaron sobre el apasionado y dramatico siglo XIX. Es una historia de las ideas historicas, de las supervivencias historicas y de los procesos historicos. Es tambien, sobre todo, la biografia colectiva de algunos personajes notables (historiadores, historiografos, escritores y cronistas) que escribieron historia, pero en quienes la Historia, a su vez, escribia su misterioso libreto. [...] En este libro las imagenes no acompañan al texto como una musica de fondo o una mera decoracion. Las imagenes componen una melodia que corre en paralelo y en contrapunto, con la narracion historica. El siglo XIX miro al presente con la imagineria del pasado y represento el pasado desde las concepciones, los prejuicios, los estilos y la sensibilidad del presente. En las manos de dibujantes, caricaturistas, grabadores, ilustradores, pintores y escultores del siglo XIX, el pasado fue tambien un arma letal en la critica politica. Jorge Luis Borges nos definio en una linea: "Mexico, pais obsedido en la contemplacion de la discordia de su pasado." Octavio Paz nos revelo en otra: "Debemos reconciliarnos con el pasado." Este libro participa de ambas: contempla la discordia, aspira a la reconciliacion." Enrique Krauze

In 1946 Juan Peron launched a populist challenge to the United States, recruiting an army of labor activists to serve as worker attaches at every Argentine embassy. By 1955, over five hundred would serve, representing the largest presence of blue-collar workers in the foreign service of any country in history. A meatpacking union leader taught striking workers in Chicago about rising salaries under Peron. A railroad motorist joined the revolution in Bolivia. A baker showed Soviet workers the daily caloric intake of their Argentine counterparts. As Ambassadors of the Working Class shows, the attaches' struggle against US diplomats in Latin America turned the region into a Cold War battlefield for the hearts of the working classes. In this context, Ernesto Seman reveals, for example, how the attaches' brand of transnational populism offered Fidel Castro and Che Guevara their last chance at mass politics before their embrace of revolutionary violence. Fiercely opposed by Washington, the attaches' project foundered, but not before US policymakers used their opposition to Peronism to rehearse arguments against the New Deal's legacies.

Lima tuvo la suerte y el honor de ser la primera ciudad de la América del Sur que contara con una imprenta, como México lo había sido de la septentrional. Este estudio bibliográfico en cuatro tomos llega hasta 1824, aquel en que termino de hecho la dominacion española en el Peru. La obra incluye, aparte de los libros impresos en Lima, los que se imprmieron en la residencia que los jesuitas tenian en Juli en los años 1610-1613, ya que guardaban mucha relacion con el tipografo limeño Francisco del Canto.

Academic study of military strategy in the American Revolution, with a global perspective.

Although the Guatemalan Civil War ended more than two decades ago, its bloody legacy continues to resonate even today. In Silenced Communities, author Marcia Esparza offers an ethnographic account of the failed demilitarization of the rural militia in the town of Santo Tomas Chichicastenango following the conflict. Combining insights from postcolonialism, subaltern studies, and theories of internal colonialism, Esparza explores the remarkable resilience of ideologies and practices engendered in the context of the Cold War, demonstrating how the lingering effects of grassroots militarization affect indigenous communities that continue to struggle with inequality and marginalization.

Sabotage is the deliberate disruption of a dominant system, be it political, military or economic. Yet in recent decades, sabotage has also become an artistic strategy most notably in Latin America. In Brazil, Colombia, Mexico, Chile and Argentina, artists are producing radical, unruly or even iconoclastic work that resists state violence, social conformity and the commodification of art. Sabotage Art reveals how contemporary Latin American artists have resorted to sabotage strategies as a means to bridge the gap between aesthetics and politics. The global status of and market for Latin American art is growing rapidly. This book is essential reading for those who want to understand this new, dissident work, as well as its mystification, co-option and commercialisation within current academic historiographies and art-world curatorial initiatives."

Stanford University Press. Book Condition: New. We ship using Royal Mail or courier in the UK and Europe with tracking number for heavier or more valuable items. All USA orders have a parcel tracking number.Only a decade ago, Mexico saw the end of seventy years of single-party hegemonic rule and the first free and fair election in its history. How has the country evolved since then, and what is the status of its democracy today? In this comprehensive new collection intended for use in undergraduate courses a group of distinguished scholars examines recent political developments in Mexico—including its 2006 election and the breakdown in consensus that nearly resulted—in order to assess the progress of its democratization. Focusing on transformations in Mexico's evolving political party system, institutions in transition, and the changing nature of state-society relations, contributors to this book discuss the challenges that Mexican democracy faces today as well as the potential it has for further change in the near future."The value of this edited collection is that it brings the reader up to date on the numerous political and institutional reforms that have occurred since Mexico's formal transition to democracy in 2000. As such, it offers the longest view yet on the underpinnings of this country's democratization process."—Carol Wise, University of Southern California"This is a very important book that fills a gap in our knowledge regarding recent political change in Mexico, particularly with regard to the 2006 presidential elections and their aftermath. It broadens our understanding of democracy in Mexico beyond the electoral arena and identifies some of the main challenges for defending and expanding democratic rights."—Neil Harvey, New Mexico State UniversityAndrew Selee is Director of the Mexico Institute at the Woodrow Wilson Center and an adjunct professor of government at Johns Hopkins University. Jacqueline Peschard is a Citizen Counselor of Mexico's Federal Institute for Access to Information. Brand NEW unread book. Hard cover bound book

Secuela de lo que fue, en palabras de José Luis Martínez, una de las grandes empresas editoriales del siglo XIX mexicano, esta obra en tres volúmenes abunda en la tradición del ejercicio de la prosa que vincula los discursos historiografico, literario y periodistico, en su interpretacion paralela sustentada en la imagen y, sobre todo, en el tratamiento de la sangre como leitmotiv. A manera de continuacion de El libro rojo de Manuel Payno y Vicente Riva Palacio, publicado en 1870, cerca de trescientos autores -historiadores, cronistas, narradores y artistas visuales- compendian una suerte de antologia abreviada, por su horizonte inabarcable, de crimenes ocurridos en Mexico entre 1868 y 2008. En el prologo, el escritor y dramaturgo Vicente Leñero apunta: "Parece descabellado proferirlo de sopeton, pero a traves del recuento de crimenes y asesinatos -tanto de los ''clasicos'' individuales como de los colectivos que nos sacuden por oleadas- es posible narrar una cronica del pais. Escribirla como un libro de texto que nos enchina la piel mientras nos hace abrir los ojos a la funesta realidad". Esta edicion esta ampliamente ilustrada con imagenes de destacados artistas plasticos, como Franco Aceves Humana, Alberto Castro Leñero, Edgardo Ganado Kim, Helen Escobedo, Jan Hendrix, Perla Krauze, Carla Rippey, Patricia Soriano, Gerardo Suter, Boris Viskin. Entre los escritores que colaboran en la edicion se encuentran: Ana Garcia Bergua, Enrique Krauze, Vicente Leñero, Fabrizio Mejia Madrid, Jean Meyer, Eugenia Meyer, Eduardo Antonio Parra, Luis Arturo Ramos, Paco Ignacio Taibo II, Alvaro Uribe.