Dimensiones del conflicto: resistencia, violencia y policía en el mundo urbano

Simpson refleja la contradictoria fascinacion y el asombro que produce en los extranjeros el pasado y el presente de Mexico, lo mismo en el terreno de la referencia abstracta que en el de la confrontacion con una realidad cotidiana en la que la historia reaparece siempre con renovada vigencia. Tal vez por eso el autor nos dice que su libro es una invitacion al lector a hacer con el un remunerador viaje al pasado de Mexico.

Las fiestas de toros, desde su origen, han sido un espectáculo polémico que ha despertado grandes pasiones a favor y en contra. Papas, teólogos, monarcas y ministros intentaron prohibir las fiestas de toros en diversas ocasiones y por distintos motivos: desde las razones de orden moral y humanista alegadas en las bulas pontificias del siglo XVI, los argumentos utilitaristas, económicos y laborales planteados en la España de la Ilustración, hasta las denuncias sociales, políticas y animalistas de las últimas centurias. El objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar los principales hitos...

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