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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...

Todos los con' ictos bélicos, aunque quede oculto por el brillo de las «heroicas» batallas, se producen por causas económicas. La Segunda Guerra Mundial no es una excepción. No las hay. Durante los años 20 del pasado siglo, la prosperidad había favorecido un aumento demográ" co. La crisis del 29 hacía muy difícil mantener a toda esa población, lo que propició tanto en Alemania como en Japón, amparados en su superioridad industrial, que se difundieran ideologías de tipo nacionalista que justi" caban la supremacía racial de unos países sobre otros de su entorno, para poder...

Michael D. Coe, uno de los mas importantes mayologos de la actualidad, relata en este libro la historia de lo que el considera "una de las aventuras intelectuales mas interesantes de nuestro tiempo": una historia polemica, de enfrentamientos intelectuales entre los distintos expertos que, si bien con ideas distintas, a veces directamente opuestas, participaron en la ardua labor del desciframiento de los glifos mayas. Knorosov, Thompson y Proskouriakoff, protagonistas de esta aventura, aparecen retratados finamente por Coe en este libro.