Nuevos ensayos mexicanos

Escritos por estudiosos europeos, mexicanos y estadounidenses, los ensayos aquí reunidos se ocupan de un gran tema de la historia de México: los levantamientos rurales; los examinan desde la época precortesiana hasta el siglo XX y los comparan en el tiempo y en el espacio. {Revuelta, rebelión y revolución} es un libro llamado a convertirse en un clásico.

La intenci n del volumen es presentar el estado actual de la investigaci n sobre un tema relativamente poco explorado: la fuerza de trabajo, el mercado de trabajo y los movimientos laborales urbanos en Am rica Latina.

Desmitificando los tópicos con que se nos suelen presentar los tiempos de la caballería, Sean McGlynn, profesor de la Universidad de Bristol, nos descubre en este libro la salvaje realidad de la guerra en la Edad Media: una realidad de trato brutal contra soldados y civiles, de presos masacrados, ciudades saqueadas, campos devastados ... Nada de esto era fortuito, sino que estaba encaminado a lograr unos determinados objetivos: figuras históricas que nos han llegado envueltas en un halo caballeresco, como Carlomagno, Saladino o Ricardo Corazón de León, no dudaron en recurrir a las más...

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