Calendario maya II

La cultura sefardí siempre ha despertado gran interés más allá de la historiografía especializada. Tras la expulsión en 1492 y durante siglos, los judíos desterrados prolongaron su relación con España a través de numerosas manifestaciones en las que se citan, sin solución de continuidad, el resentimiento, la idealización y la nostalgia. El caso quizás no tenga parangón en la historia: raras veces una comunidad expulsada ha mantenido semejante fidelidad a sus orígenes. Incluso en las peores horas del siglo XX volvieron su vista a la tierra que aún contemplaban como refugio,...

Este libro busca definir el significado de la obra de Andrés Bello para la historia moderna de América Latina. Pese a ser uno de los intelectuales y estadistas más reconocidos de la historia de Hispanoamérica, y a la existencia de numerosas biografías y estudios sobre prácticamente cada aspecto de su obra, no se ha logrado esbozar una correcta evaluación académica del significado de su tarea intelectual.

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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