Los Judíos en la Nueva España

In the sixteenth century, in the eyes of the ruling class, land, arable land, remained the basis of all prosperity. As the dignitary rose in rank, he acquired the rights to more and larger areas of real estate. Theoretically, nobody was the owner of the land. The land belonged to the collective owner, calpulli, to public institutions such as temples, or to the city itself. There was no private ownership of the land, there was collective ownership with individual right of use.

Este volumen nos ofrece una visión de conjunto de la sociedad y la economía de la América latina colonial a través del análisis de algunos de los mejores especialistas actuales. Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz nos habla en él de la población desde el punto de vista demográfico, mientras el profesor Lockhart, de la Universidad de California, se ocupa de la organización y el cambio social y los profesores Bowser y Gibson estudian, respectivamente, los esclavos africanos y las sociedades indias bajo dominio español. En cuanto a la economía, Peter Bakewell comienza con el estudio de ese...

This Historical Atlas of Spain is an enjoyable and accessible guide that begins in the first millennium BC and ends in the 21st century. With a very tight narrative approach, it synthesizes the political, social, economic, and cultural development of Spain with numerous maps, photographs and illustrations that help us understand what we were and where we have arrived. The breadth of the topics covered, as well as its expositional precision, makes it an indispensable tool for the study of our history.

Alfonso Caso estudia la cultura mixteca por la interpretaci n de varios naandeye (c dices) en que se registra la historia de esta cultura a trav s de relatos geneal gicos, hist ricos o de peregrinaciones. Adem s demuestra la existencia de una escritura ind gena que combina lo iconogr fico, lo ideogr fico y lo fon tico y que permite una gran latitud de expresi n.