El comercio y el poder en México, 1821-1864

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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...

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...

La ciudad de Ur, donde tuvo asiento una gran cultura, ha sido objeto de numerosas exploraciones e investigaciones, de las cuales la más importante por sus resultados extraordinarios ha sido la que dirigió, entre 1922 y 1929, precisamente sir C. Leonard Woolley, quien también realizó estudios arqueológicos en Nubia y Cachemira.