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• Introducción : ¿para qué dialogar sobre el liberalismo? / Antonio Escobar Ohmstede, José Marcos Medina Bustos, Zulema Trejo Contreras
• Reparto de tierras y medidas de fundos legales : demandas de los pueblos mayos, 1824-1863 / Gustavo Lorenzana Durán
• Lo agrario en Oaxaca a la luz de la desamortización de la segunda mitad del siglo XIX : un acercamiento desde los valles centrales / Antonio Escobar Ohmstede
• Itinerarios de la negociación : jefes políticos y campesinos comuneros ante las políticas agrarias liberales / Romana Falcón
• Conflictividad, guerra y liberalismo gaditano en Nueva España : los pueblos indios en la provincia de Michoacán, 1786-1823 / Juan Carlos Cortés Máximo
• Gobierno indígena y liberalismo en Sonora : del enfrentamiento a la negociación (1814-1850) / José Marcos Medina Bustos
• Exacción y vigilencia : las repúblicas indígenas del régimen liberal : Yucatán, 1824-1868 / Inés Ortiz Yam
• El reto del order liberal : ciudadanos indígenas y prácticas políticas en el México independiente : la política cotidiana en el cantón de Misantla, Veracruz / Michael T. Ducey
• La representación en el imaginario indígena / Zulema Trejo Contreras
• ¿Sirve de algo la historia del liberalismo? : "raza" y ciudadanía en el México decimonónico / Érika Pani
• Sonora : autonomía regional y liberalismo económico, 1830-1870 / Juan Manuel Romero Gil.

• 1. Introduction--
• 2. Inequality, development, and distribution--
• 3. Actors and interests--
• 4. An elite-competition model of democratization--
• 5. Assessing the relationship between inequality and democratization--
• 6. Inequality and democratization: empirical extensions--
• 7. Democracy, inequality, and public spending: reassessing the evidence--
• 8. Democracy, redistribution, and preferences--
• 9. Conclusion.
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Research on the economic origins of democracy and dictatorship has shifted away from the impact of growth and turned toward the question of how different patterns of growth - equal or unequal - shape regime change. This book offers a new theory of the historical relationship between economic modernization and the emergence of democracy on a global scale, focusing on the effects of land and income inequality. Contrary to most mainstream arguments, Ben W. Ansell and David J. Samuels suggest that democracy is more likely to emerge when rising, yet politically disenfranchised, groups demand more influence because they have more to lose, rather than when threats of redistribution to elite interests are low.
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• Cover; Contents; Acknowledgements; Prologue: The Failed State;
• Part 1: A General Theory of Violence; 1 The Spatial Dynamics of Evolution; 2 The Culture of Pauperisation; 3 The Socio-Ecology of Peace: Costa Rica;
• Part 2: The Social Pathology of Land Grabs; 4 Colonialism & the Corruption of People Power; 5 The Pathology of Re-ordered Space; 6 Genocide & the Concentration Camp;
• Part 3: Structures of Violence; 7 Neo-colonialism & the Dysfunctional State; 8 Fascism: Italy's Fourth Shore; 9 Economics of the Covenant;
• Part 4: Healing Humanity; 10 Freedom through Taxation; 11 Truth and Reconciliation.

Understanding the territorial basis of political power and wealth is the pre-requisite, the author argues, for making sense of issues as diverse as genocide, narco-gangsterism, terrorism and fascism. Fred Harrison draws on global-wide case studies to show how the violent birth of nation-states, whether the result of territorial conquests or colonialism, splits the population into two classes, victors and vanquished. This division is perpetuated and legitimated through the system of land tenure. The pathological consequences - as diverse as failed states, organised crime (mafia), religious fundamentalism and the re-emergence of piracy - are the result of the violent uprooting of the original inhabitants from their homelands. The struggle over land and resources, Harrison contends, is at the root of all of today's global crises. Some attempts are being made to restore land to those in need, ranging from the offer of land in Afghanistan to the Taliban as an inducement to set aside their violent strategies, to the sharing of the rents of oil in Nigeria to entice eco-warriors into mainstream politics. But these piecemeal tactics fail to synthesise the conditions for peace and prosperity. "The Predator Culture" provides a framework for truth and reconciliation in what has become a violent world that is slipping dangerously out of control.
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Understanding the territorial basis of political power and wealth is the pre-requisite, the author argues, for making sense of issues as diverse as genocide, narco-gangsterism, terrorism and fascism. Fred Harrison draws on global-wide case studies to show how the violent birth of nation-states, whether the result of territorial conquests or colonialism, splits the population into two classes, victors and vanquished. This division is perpetuated and legitimated through the system of land tenure. The pathological consequences - as diverse as failed states, organised crime (mafia), religious fundamentalism and the re-emergence of piracy - are the result of the violent uprooting of the original inhabitants from their homelands. The struggle over land and resources, Harrison contends, is at the root of all of today's global crises. Some attempts are being made to restore land to those in need, ranging from the offer of land in Afghanistan to the Taliban as an inducement to set aside their violent strategies, to the sharing of the rents of oil in Nigeria to entice eco-warriors into mainstream politics. But these piecemeal tactics fail to synthesise the conditions for peace and prosperity. "The Predator Culture" provides a framework for truth and reconciliation in what has become a violent world that is slipping dangerously out of control.
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• Introduction-- Maitland on family and kinship-- The invention of English individualism: Alan Macfarlane and the modernization of pre-modern England (with Richard T. Vann)-- Clotild's revenge: politics, kinship, and ideology in the Merovingian blood feud-- Kinship and lordship in early medieval England: the story of Sigeberht, Cynewulf, and Cyneheard-- The discourse of inheritance in twelfth-century France: alternative models of the fief in 'Raoul de Cambrai'-- English feudalism and its origins-- Strategie rhetorique dans la Conventio de Hugues de Lusignan-- The politics of fidelity in early eleventh-century France: Fulbert of Chartres, William of Aquitaine, and Hugh of Lusignan-- Book review: Susan Reynolds, Fiefs and vassals-- the medieval evidence reinterpreted-- The politics of exchange: gifts, fiefs, and feudalism-- Giving fiefs and honor: largesse, avarice, and the problem of 'feudalism' in Alexander's testament-- Service for fiefs or fiefs for service: the politics of reciprocity-- A crisis of fidelity in c. 1000?-- Index.
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This is the second collection of studies by Stephen D. White to be published by Variorum (the first being "Feuding and Peace-Making in Eleventh-Century France"). The essays in this volume look principally at France and England from Merovingian and Anglo-Saxon times up to the 12th century. They analyze Latin and Old French discourses that medieval nobles used to construct their relationships with kin, lords, men, and friends, and investigate the political dimensions of such relationships with particular reference to patronage or clientage, the use of land as an item of exchange, and feuding. In so doing, the essays call into question the conventional practice of studying kinship and feudalism as independent systems of legal institutions and propose new strategies for studying them.
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