Cowboys and Caudillos

Los hechos narrados en este libro son parte fundamental del largo y cruento proceso de la Revolución mexicana. De la Decena Trágica al Congreso Constituyente, Jesús Silva Herzog expone con gran maestría los acontecimientos que llevaron a México de un golpe militar en 1913 a la promulgación de la Constitución Política de 1917, la cual recogió gran parte de las demandas sociales del proyecto revolucionario. Al margen de la tradicional historia político-militar de la Revolución, Silva Herzog realizó un profundo análisis ideológico y sociopolítico de sus etapas, acompañando su...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Este libro es el primer estudio sobre Don Juan O’Brien, uno de los personajes irlandeses más relevantes para la historia de las independencias sudamericanas. O’Brien, oriundo de Baltinglass, Irlanda, arribó a Buenos Aires a principios del siglo XIX atraído por el floreciente comercio textil entre ambos continentes. Al poco tiempo se vio envuelto en las batallas contra el dominio español, siendo parte de los ejércitos libertadores de la región. Participó en las independencias de Argentina, Chile, Perú y Uruguay, relacionándose con los generales más famosos de ese período: José...