Balseros, historia oral del éxodo cubano del '94

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This powerful book tells the story of Anne Skorecki Levy, a Holocaust survivor who transformed the horrors of her childhood into a passionate mission to defeat the political menace of reputed neo-Nazi and Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke. The first book to connect the prewar and wartime experiences of Jewish survivors to the lives they subsequently made for themselves in the United States, Troubled Memory is also a dramatic testament to how the experiences of survivors as new Americans spurred their willingness to bear witness. Perhaps the only family to survive the liquidation of the Warsaw...

Este libro publicado en 1970 y revisado en 1975, muestra el proceso deliberado de convertir el mosaico humano que habitaba el extenso territorio de la Nueva Espana en un estado-nacion. La experiencia historica y administrativa de tres siglos, habia generado importantes lazos culturales, pero hasta entonces la lealtad a la Corona y la religion eran las fuentes principales de union. Al romperse las ligas con Espana hubo que trasladar la lealtad del Rey al gobierno independiente, y como en otros casos, se recurrio a los rituales civicos y a la educacion publica y, dentro de ella, a la ensenanza...

En esta obra se exploran las reconfiguraciones que las cultura alimentarias y sus cocinas presentan en diversos momentos históricos a partir de la integración de once investigaciones enriquecidas por la historia, la antropologia y la agroomía.