Discursos contra los nobles en la Castilla tardomedieval

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Este libro está destinado para quienes se interesan por las raíces de las sociedades de los Andes. La obra de Chantal Caillavet abarca varios siglos de la protohistoria e historia del Ecuador desde el periodo prehispánico, e incluso preincaico, hasta la época colonial y tiempos más cercanos a nosotros. Si bien el trabajo se centra en la región norteña, no deja de considerar los Andes septentrionales en su conjunto. Al mismo tiempo, procura situar la perspectiva ecuatorianista en un contexto comparativo dentro de horizontes más amplios y relacionados con regiones vecinas, en especial...

Are the Mexican people the children of Moctezuma or the children of Cortés? This question, long the central problem of Mexican historians, Justo Sierra answered by saying, "The Mexicans are the sons of the two peoples, of the two races … to this we owe our soul." Because Sierra recognized the dual parentage, he was able to view his country's history as an evolutionary process. Formed in both the indigenous past and the colonial past, the Mexican people, after three hundred years of slow and painful gestation, were finally born with the arrival of Independence. They came of age when the...

J.R.S. Phillips muestra de manera detallada el alcance de la expansi n medieval europea entre los a os 1000 y 1500, sus ra ces en las ideas cl sicas del mundo, y c mo stas promovieron los famosos viajes del Renacimiento. Asimismo, examina algunos de los mitos que eran corrientes en Europa antes del a o 1500, y algunos de los que han surgido desde entonces, como el mapa de Vinland.