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Pasajes de la Guerra Revolucionaria: Congo (The Che Guevara Library)
By Ernesto Che Guevara. 2011
En abril de 1965, el Che Guevara se marcha de La Habana al Congo para dirigir a 200 veteranos cubanos…
que asisten al movimiento de liberación africana contra los colonialistas belgas, cuatro años después del asesinato del presidente socialista democráticamente electo, Patrice Lumumba.Porque el diario trata el admitido "fracaso" del Che, examina cada detalle doloroso de lo sucedido para poder extraer enseñanzas constructivas para futuros movimientos guerrilleros.Único entre sus libros, Pasajes de la Guerra Revolucionaria: Congo es un retrato del Che brutalmente honesto que ilustra su capacidad como cuentista; en sus relatos de los fascinantes episodios de conflicto armado de la guerrilla no hay hesitación, endulzamiento o jerga. Algunos lo consideran el mejor libro del Che, también es uno de los pocos que editó para la publicación luego de escribirlo.El Ancestro Tikar
By Bouke Ibrahim. 2023
Por solicitud y con la bendición de su Majestad, aquí esta para ser compartido este manuscrito acerca del orígen del…
ancestro Tikar. Este es el origen de una tribu, una nación, un pueblo: los Tikar de África. Desde la histórica tierra de KUSH (el Sudán actual) hasta las tierras de Kimi y otros Reinos, tales como el Ngambe-Tikar en Camerún Un libro único en su género, ¡escrito desde una auténtica nación africana, intacto y sin diluír!, escrito por un residente actual de Gah, en la llanura de Tikar. Este libro comparte una historia escrita y hablada del antiguo pueblo Tikar. Contiene el idioma antiguo, tradiciones y costumbres ocultas que se han preservado y permitieron a un pueblo sobrevivir durante cientos de años sin la influencia de los europeos.Ñamérica
By Martín Caparrós. 2021
"There is a certain region of the world in which twenty countries and more than 400 million people share a…
language, a history, a culture, concerns and hopes. We know it poorly; we know mostly its myths, its reflections, its commonplaces; we think of it as it was in other times. This region is called or could be called Ñamérica - and this book wants to tell it and understand it as it is now. Martín Caparrós has been traveling through it for many years and has looked at it from all sides: from its big cities to its small towns, from its reggaeton to its economies, from its violence to its food, from its governments to its soccer, from its inequality to its insurrections, from its migrants to its books, from its defiant women to its corrupt politicians, from its new rich to its always poor, from its history to its diverse futures. With all this, Ñamérica assembles a fresco that shows us that Ñamérica is not what we thought it was. A mestizo book, a crossbreed of words, Ñamérica is, like The Hunger before it, a chronicle that thinks, an essay that tells, a great story assembled with that style that defines its author as one of the language's decisive storytellers." -- Translation provided by NLSEl amanecer de todo: una nueva historia de la humanidad
By David Graeber. 2022
"Two archaeologists explore reinterpretations of early societal development and reject the common understanding of early mankind as primitive and childlike.…
Drawing on new understanding and research, the authors theorize about what shape human society may have taken if not in bands of hunter-gatherers as long as previously assumed." -- Provided by NLSHistoria mínima de Bolivia (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
By Herbert S Klein. 2019
"A comprehensive survey of Bolivia's economic, social, cultural, and political evolution from the arrival of early man in the Andes…
to the present, A Concise History of Bolivia highlights fundamental changes since the National Revolution of 1952 and the return of democracy in 1982 and its present day consequences. These changes include the introduction of universal education and the rise of the mestizos and Indian populations to political power for the first time in the nation's history." -- GoodreadsLa Ciudad de México: una historia (Colección popular (Fondo de Cultura Económica (Mexico)) #566)
By Serge Gruzinski. 2022
"The history of Mexico City is monumental, like Our Lady of Guadalupe that watches over the city. That's because time,…
people, and cultures have never stopped intermixing there. In the 1920s, as the first skyscrapers rose up, art, cinema and revolution rendezvoused in the city. Eisenstein discovered the land of Zapata and shared his passion in ¡Que viva México!. Trotsky took refuge in La Casa Azul where Frida Kahlo beguiled André Breton, and Graham Greene admired on the murales the rural teachers dressed in white with pious apostolic faces. For a long time artists, scientists, actors, and adventurers flocked to this American Venice where another world awaited them. The author tells the story of Mexico City in reverse, from the chaos of a global metropolis to the rise of the imperial Aztec city of Tenochtitlan." -- Amazon.comHistoria mínima de Colombia (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
By Jorge Orlando Melo. 2019
"Colombia has been described as a legalistic and militaristic country, with a democratic and civilian tradition, but at the same…
time violent and repressive. An isolated country with a slow economic development, but with a successful economic policy that never fell into populist temptations. A weak State unable to occupy the entire territory, although controlled by an authoritarian and repressive oligarchy. A country with advanced social movements and guerrilla groups active for half a century, but with a strict liberal policy and an electorate without leftist temptations. Since 1930, the tension between liberals and conservatives, as well as the guerrilla uprising since 1958, led Colombia to high violence." -- Translation provided by NLSHistoria mínima del Perú (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
By Carlos Contreras. 2017
"Peruvian history has been divided into three major periods: the pre-Hispanic period, from the arrival of the first human beings…
to the fall of the Inca empire in 1532; the colonial or Spanish period, between 1532 and 1821; and the republican or independent period, between 1821 and the present. This proposal assumed the prevailing political organization as a classificatory axis. Thus we had, at the beginning, indigenous lordships that, on the eve of the European incursion, had taken on an imperial political form; a centralized government subject to the directives of a distant monarchic center, later, and, finally, an elected government, formally independent although constrained by commercial and political relations with other countries and organizations of the world. In this book on the history of Peru, this division is basically maintained, partly for practical reasons (it is the way in which the history of other countries of the world is also periodized and to which the readers are accustomed), and partly, also, because we believe that it is correct in assuming that the political organization of a nation has a determining force for the formation of the other aspects of the development of a society." -- Translation provided by NLSHistoria mínima de Uruguay (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
By Gerardo Caetano. 2020
"Uruguay's uniqueness has been a much debated topic in the history of Latin America. This small country, especially when viewed…
between Argentina and Brazil, has often been perceived as a laboratory of unique experiences. In the colonial centuries, the border between the Portuguese and Spanish empires gave this territory a frontier profile that found continuity in the long dispute between its giant neighbors during the nineteenth and part of the twentieth century. This book, with all the rigor of historical knowledge, explains the main tracks of the Uruguayan past based on a careful selection of processes, events and actors that unfold over almost five centuries. It is a synthesis as honest as it is debatable, built from a critical and plural perspective." -- Translation provided by NLSHistoria mínima de Venezuela (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
By Manuel Alberto Donís Ríos. 2019
"The republic that reached important material development levels and obvious democratic growth achievements is now going through a decline that…
has aroused the attention of the world. How did Venezuela reach this point of weakness? Why did its progress cease? This book offers interesting clues, after sharing the major events that have driven Venezuelan society since its origins. It focuses only on the crucial phenomena, on the most relevant clues, so that the reader can grasp the fundamentals of the chain of achievements and frustrations, of commotions and peaceful developments, which has determined the course of a national challenge that urgently needs to be addressed." -- Translation provided by NLSHistoria mínima de México (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
By Daniel Cosío Villegas. 2021
"This classic from El Colegio de México is republished 44 years after its first edition. The events that have left…
their mark on the history of Mexico are recorded in these pages, from the uncertain steps of its first settlers, in pre-Hispanic times, to the also uncertain steps of those who went through the crisis of the eighties in the twentieth century. Between this and that, the reader can follow the course of the viceregal era, the formative period of independent Mexico, the modern stretch of the restored Republic and the Porfiriato, the Revolution and the years of 'political stability and economic progress.'" -- Translation provided by NLSZapata y la Revolución mexicana (Sección de obras de historia)
By John Womack. 2017
"This essential volume recalls the activities of Emiliano Zapata (1879-1919), a leading figure in the Mexican Revolution; he formed and…
commanded an important revolutionary force during this conflict. Womack focuses attention on Zapata's activities and his home state of Morelos during the Revolution. Zapata quickly rose from his position as a peasant leader in a village seeking agrarian reform. Zapata's dedication to the cause of land rights made him a hero to the people. Womack describes the contributing factors and conditions preceding the Mexican Revolution, creating a narrative that examines political and agrarian transformations on local and national levels." -- GoodreadsHasta que las piedras se vuelvan más ligeras que el agua
By António Lobo Antunes. 2017
António Lobo Antunes, «el mejor autor vivo de Portugal», regresa a los fantasmas de la guerra de Angola con una…
novela vertiginosa marcada por la violencia de la colonización y el racismo. «António Lobo Antunes ha levantado otra novela-catedral. Sobre la memoria, el sufrimiento,la pérdida, el amor y todas las cosas frágiles, casi indecibles, que se nos escapan o nos faltan».José Mario Silva, ExpressoHasta que las piedras se vuelvan más ligeras que el agua es un libro vertiginoso, violento y, por momentos, duro. Maestro de la prosa introspectiva, António Lobo Antunes teje en esta novela coral un tapiz en el que las emociones fluyen en una danza hipnótica, entre pasado y presente. En las calles empedradas de Lisboa, las voces de múltiples generaciones resuenan en una desgarradora sinfonía. A través de los ojos y los corazones de personajes inolvidables, Lobo Antunes nos guía por las vidas de una familia marcada por la violencia y los secretos, los amores prohibidos y los deseos inconfesables. Hasta que las piedras se vuelvan más ligeras que el agua es una novela que desafía las convenciones literarias, y que invita al lector a explorar la naturaleza de la identidad, de la pérdida y de las relaciones personales. Lobo Antunes edifica otra obra maestra que discurre como un río melancólico, arrastrándonos en su corriente mientras nos sumerge en una experiencia de lectura que perdurará mucho después de haber vuelto la última página. Una novela, en definitiva, donde las palabras se convierten en un espejo de las almas, capturando la esencia misma del ser humano. La crítica ha dicho:«Las escenas de Lobo Antunes están animadas por la poesía de lo cotidiano y teñidas de la autoparodia más fina».J.M. Coetzee «El heredero de Conrad y Faulkner».George Steiner «Lobo Antunes muestra empatía hacialas contradicciones de los sentimientos humanos. Es un escritor de sangre caliente».The New York Times Book Review «Uno de los retratistas psicológicos más hábiles».The New Yorker «Leer la prosa del más grande escritor portugués, que es también uno de los más grandes escritores de su época, es una experiencia rara, inquietante y, al mismo tiempo, cautivadora».Bruno Corty, Le Figaro«Un autor con una facilidad prodigiosa para atrapar obras maestras que dentro de cinco mil años, en arcilla o en polvo de estrellas, continuará siendo leído con pasión».El PaísManual de supervivencia: Chernobil, una guía para el futuro
By Kate Brown. 2020
"Drawing on a decade of archival research and on-the-ground interviews in Ukraine, Russia, and Belarus, Kate Brown unveils the full…
breadth of the devastation and the whitewash that followed. Her findings make clear the irreversible impact of man-made radioactivity on every living thing; and hauntingly, they force us to confront the untold legacy of decades of weapons-testing and other nuclear incidents, and the fact that we are emerging into a future for which the survival manual has yet to be written." -- GoodreadsHistoria mínima de Argentina (Historia mínima (Mexico City, Mexico))
By Raúl Mandrini. 2018
"This book proposes a general approach to the Argentine past. It is an authentic synthesis effort that reconstructs the great…
avenues of a history in which politics, economy, society and culture are interwoven. The journey begins with the first human settlements thousands of years ago, and closes with the debates, conflicts and challenges that Argentina is going through at the end of the first decade of the 21st century. This broad chronology unfolds according to four moments: the original populations; the colonial period; the process of independence and national organization; and finally the contemporary era and the immediate past." -- Translation provided by NLSUna historia en cada hijo te dio: Crónicas insólitas de México y su gente
By Gerardo Australia. 2023
¿Quién inventó la máquina tortilladora? ¿Por qué en México hay una tienda en cada esquina? ¿Qué hacía un japonés en…
la Revolución? ¿Cuál ha sido el presidente más honrado? ¿Quién fue la primera mujer gobernadora? Las respuestas a estas preguntas se encuentran en este libro, que reúne diversos hechos y personajes tan curiosos e interesantes como sólo México puede ofrecer. Cada una de estas páginas nos demuestra que la Historia no sólo está en los museos y las enciclopedias, también se encuentra en las cosas (en apariencia) más simples de la vida. ¿Qué esperas? ¡Acompáñanos en este paseo por algunas de las historias más sorprendentes de la historia de nuestro país! «Una historia en cada hijo te dio es una obra escrita desde la pasión y el gusto por las letras, y qué mejor que ponerlas al servicio de la crónica histórica.» -ALEJANDRO ROSASPuño y letra (Biblioteca breve (Santiago, Chile))
By Diamela Eltit. 2014
"In Handwriting, Eltit offers her reading of the Argentine trial of Enrique Arancibia Clavel for his participation in the assassination…
of General Prats and his wife, Sofía Cuthbert. The work's main concept is the literal transcription of documents generated by third parties, but also considers three brief texts, written in her own handwriting, that explain the book's motives and allow two reflections. The first, linked to her narrative staging of the book, to the use of third-party documents, and their function in the literary act; the second focuses on the documents' content that reveals the motives of one of so many political crimes executed during the Pinochet dictatorship." -- Translation provided by NLSGastronomía e imperio: la cocina en la historia del mundo (Sección de obras de historia)
By Rachel Laudan. 2020
"Cuisine and Empire shows how merchants, missionaries, and the military took cuisines over mountains, oceans, deserts, and across political frontiers.…
Laudan's innovative narrative treats cuisine, like language, clothing, or architecture, as something constructed by humans. By emphasizing how cooking turns farm products into food and by taking the globe rather than the nation as the stage, she challenges the agrarian, romantic, and nationalistic myths that underlie the contemporary food movement." -- GoodreadsA sangre y fuego con Pancho Villa (Vida y pensamiento de Mexico)
By Juan Bautista Vargas Arreola. 1988
Julia de Burgos: la creación de un ícono Puertorriqueño
By Vanessa Pérez Rosario. 2022
"Vanessa Pérez-Rosario examines poet and political activist Julia de Burgos's development as a writer, her experience of migration, and her…
legacy in New York City, the poet's home after 1940. Pérez-Rosario situates Julia de Burgos as part of a transitional generation that helps to bridge the historical divide between Puerto Rican nationalist writers of the 1930s and the Nuyorican writers of the 1970s. Becoming Julia de Burgos departs from the prevailing emphasis on the poet and intellectual as a nationalist writer to focus on her contributions to New York Latino/a literary and visual culture. It moves beyond the standard tragedy-centered narratives of de Burgos's life to place her within a nuanced historical understanding of Puerto Rico's peoples and culture to consider more carefully the complex history of the island and the diaspora. Pérez-Rosario unravels the cultural and political dynamics at work when contemporary Latina/o writers and artists in New York revise, reinvent, and riff off of Julia de Burgos as they imagine new possibilities for themselves and their communities." -- Goodreads