Porfirio Díaz

En el proceso de independencia que libraron las antiguas colonias españolas, los sectores populares no estuvieron ausentes, como se ha visto o pensado. Y esto, porque sin ellos no hubiera sido posible pelear en las guerras o, simplemente, sin ellos no era posible funcionar.

Las primaveras árabes le enseñaron al mundo que los ideales revolucionarios, que parecían enterrados bajo los escombros del muro de Berlín y confinados a los libros de historia, no están muertos. La revolución parece seguir siendo el motor de la historia: consignas, símbolos e iconos son enarbolados por ciudadanos, militantes, políticos, periodistas, que no dejan de convocar el pasado. Desde los movimientos del siglo xvii inglés, pasando por la paradigmática Revolución francesa, hasta las Primaveras árabes de este siglo xxi, esta obra examina las principales revoluciones del...

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"This annotated bibliography of 332 Mexican autobiographies breaks new ground in the field of Latin American bibliography, for up to now, no study has existed of autobiography in this part of the world. . . . This volume could serve as a model for future bibliographies of autobiographies in other Hispanic countries such as Spain itself, Argentina, Chile, etc. . . . This volume belongs in any library interested in Mexico and its culture. Woods and his translator Josefina Crus-Melendez should be congratulated for a job well done." ARBA