Cerro Gordo

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The need to protect the physical and cultural environment in which we operate is the logical consequence of the dramatic transformations witnessed in recent years due to rapid urban development. This book seeks new ways to understand the natural and historic patrimony, increasing the evidences that we use to define our cultural heritage. The importance of this has been increasing in recent years leading to the creation of legal categories by the "European Landscape Convention". In Toledo, as a result of a peculiar historical evolution that has prevented the existence of large urban change...

Junto a los dos sistemas organizativos generados en la Antigüedad -el de la polis y el del Estado- el organigrama administrativo provincial implantado por los romanos acabaría jugando un papel no despreciable en la experiencia cotidiana de los habitantes del Imperio. El objetivo de esta monografía colectiva, centrada de forma no exclusiva en Hispania, consiste en identificar la manera en que esta nueva forma de vertebración, la provincia, sin sustituir a las anteriores, pudo comenzar a asumirse como nuevo criterio de referencia, e incluso de identificación. Se desarrollan aquí los...

This collection provides an in-depth look at some of the most provocative civilizations and religions in history. With photographs, maps, and colored illustrations this text provides an understanding of the politics and culture of ancient civilizations, and the origins of world religions. Con un texto atractivo, mapas, fotgrafías e ilustraciones, esta colección descubre la profunidad de algunos de los espisodios mas transcendentes de la humanidad. Estos libros se adentran en los antiguos politícos y las culturas de Grecia, de Roma y de las civilizaciones precolombianas y descubren con un...