Breve historia de Estados Unidos

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Los embates del mundo actual no pueden explicarse sin el estudio de la historia y la historiografía. La presente obra hace comprensible la práctica historiográfica del siglo XX y las tendencias que se atisban a principios del XXI, analizando las principales corrientes que se han sucedido (desde la escuela de los Annales hasta la Alltagsgeschichte y la historia medioambiental) y relacionándolas con los futuros que esperaban quienes escribieron sobre el pasado. Asimismo aborda el estudio de las representaciones del pasado que configuran la cultura popular, la vida cívica y el discurso...

Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.

Drug trafficking goes beyond organized crime. It is a way of life that has its own idols and even its own saints. Mexico's acclaimed journalist Jorge Fernandez Menendez unmasks the unavoidable presence of drug trafficking, its resources and organization, smuggling and weaponry, and its overall lack of control along the Mexican border. These elements, combined, constitute the alternate power to the State: The Other Authority.