El Puente Pegasus

Este libro viene a ser el testamento intelectual de Charles Tilly, maestro indiscutible en los campos de la historia social y de la sociología, quien quiso sintetizar en estas páginas su amplia e innovadora obra de estudio de los movimientos de masas, cuya evolución sigue aquí desde sus orígenes en las protestas populares de la Inglaterra de mediados del siglo XVIII, a través de su expansión mundial como un instrumento de transformación social en los siglos XIX y XX -con su culminación en los movimientos de protesta de 1989, de Polonia a Tiananmen-, hasta los profundos cambios que la ...

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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.

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...