Historias de España contemporánea

When Friar Diego Bringas penned his 1796–97 report on conditions in northwestern New Spain, he was imbued with an enthusiastic drive for reform. Hoping to gain the King of Spain’s support in improving the missionary program, Bringas set down a detailed history of all that had happened in the region since Father Kino’s day. His writings offer a valuable study of Spanish attempts to bring about cultural change among the Piman Indians. Daniel S. Matson and Bernard L. Fontana have translated the Bringas document and added an informative introduction, notes, and references. They analyze...

Con motivo de la doble conmemoración de 1810 y 1910, Christopher Domínguez Michael entrevistó –para la revista Letras Libres y la serie de televisión La Conquista– a algunos de los más importantes entre los historiadores que, mexicanos y extranjeros, han escrito obras decisivas sobre nuestra historia: David A. Brading, Christian Duverger, John H. Elliott, Brian R. Hamnett, Friedrich Katz, Alan Knight, Enrique Krauze, Miguel León-Portilla, Rodrigo Martínez Baracs, Eduardo Matos Moctezuma, Jean Meyer, Guilhem Olivier, Hugh Thomas, Guillermo Tovar de Teresa y Eric Van Young.

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Los represores les decían putas y guerrilleras. Les gritaban eso apenas las secuestraban y lo repetían una y otra vez durante sus estadías en el infierno. Es lo que cuentan Miriam Lewin y Olga Wornat, militantes en su juventud y periodistas de renombre desde hace décadas, en, tal vez, el libro más descarnado, honesto y conmovedor sobre lo que ocurrió en los centros clandestinos de detención en la década de 1970. Son decenas de historias silenciadas, de confesiones largamente elaboradas incluidas las de las autoras y de una rebelión contra el relato oficial sobre esos años. No sólo...