Diplomática episcopal

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"Porfirio Díaz, president of Mexico (1876-1880, 1884-1911), dominated his country during a crucial phase in its development as a modern nation. This profile places the regime in its appropriate nineteenth-century context, highlighting the difficulty of implementing liberal policies in societies with strong colonial traditions, and of balancing material development with order and stability"--Back cover.

En noviembre de 1700 moría en Madrid Carlos II, el último Austria español. El pésimo estado de salud del monarca movilizó a todos los estados europeos en torno al asunto de su sucesión. De esta manera, durante cuarenta años, la diplomacia del emperador Leopoldo I y de Luis XIV se afanó en Madrid para asegurar a sus respectivos candidatos la sucesión al trono español. Se trataba, entre otras cosas, de convencer a los españoles de que su alternativa era la mejor, la más conveniente, la más atractiva. El final es de todos conocido: Felipe de Anjou, nieto del rey de Francia, fue el...

"No existe una verdadera revolucion social sin la liberacion de la mujer," explica Sankara, dirigente central de la revolucion de 1983-87 en Burkina Faso. Los trabajadores y campesinos de ese pais de Africa occidental establecieron un gobierno popular revolucionario y comenzaron a combatir el hambre, el analfabetismo y el atraso economico impuestos por el dominio imperialista."There is no true social revolution without the liberation of women," explains the leader of the 1983-87 revolution in Burkina Faso. Workers and peasants in that West African country established a popular revolutionary...