Allende las fronteras. Los mediadores culturales, España y México, siglo XIX

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

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Simón Bolívar y el bolivarismo, ¿tienen algo que ver con la revolución bolivariana y los movimientos afines en la actual Sudamérica? ¿Es posible concluir, como han hecho reiteradamente muchos académicos y políticos como Hugo Chávez, Evo Morales, Rafael Correa y sus múltiples seguidores o aliados repartidos por toda la región e incluso más allá, que Bolívar fue el gran precursor de la integración latinoamericana? Más allá de los esfuerzos de sus epígonos, resulta difícil sintetizar una esencia única del pensamiento bolivariano. Como le pasa a cualquier persona, las ideas de ...