El episcopado y la Independencia en México (1810-1836)

Los importantes canbios que experimentó Bogotá durante la primera mitad del siglo XX transformaron su economía, su urbanidad y su sociedad. La idea dee modernidad, en boga en el mundo en aquella época e impulsada en la ciudad por la élite política, implicaba la necesidad de cambios, no sólo en el aspecto físico de la ciudad, sino también en los hábitos de alimentación y de vestir del pueblo. Aquí se demuestra que, dadas las grandes transformaciones que tuvo la sociedad, las condiciones de vida y el poder adquisitivo de los trabajadores no tuvieron grandes avances durante la...

Seventeen Egyptologists and archaeologists probe the most compelling mysteries of ancient Egypt in this illustrated collection of 70 brief essays. Answers to age-old questions about Egyptian burial rituals, architecture, and royalty are provided, and recent discoveries are discussed—evidence that Tutankhamen was murdered, boats buried intact deep in the desert beside the tombs of the earliest kings, unexplained shafts inside the Great Pyramids aligned with the stars, and a massive mausoleum built for the many sons of Ramses II. The essays are supplemented with evocative photographs,...

"No existe una verdadera revolucion social sin la liberacion de la mujer," explica Sankara, dirigente central de la revolucion de 1983-87 en Burkina Faso. Los trabajadores y campesinos de ese pais de Africa occidental establecieron un gobierno popular revolucionario y comenzaron a combatir el hambre, el analfabetismo y el atraso economico impuestos por el dominio imperialista."There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women," explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and peasants in that West African country established a popular revolutionary...

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