En las entrañas de Goliat

El estudio de las minas de plata en el México colonial de los siglos XVI y XVII se concentra en la región de Zacatecas, principal región minera y base fundamental de la economía doméstica colonial así como la más importante proveedora financiera de la Corona española. En este libro se describe el descubrimiento de las minas de Zacatecas, el establecimiento de la ciudad, su papel en el avance de la colonización española hacia el norte, su administración y sus medios de aprovisionamiento.

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...

Esta biografía en dos volúmenes de Simón Bolívar, libertador de cinco naciones en Sudamérica y el primer presidente de Colombia y Venezuela, fue escrita por Felipe Larrazábal, músico, abogado, periodista y político venezolano de importante presencia a mediados del siglo XIX, y contiene un prólogo y notas de Rufino Blanco Fombona, notable escritor y político venezolano de fines del siglo XIX y principios del XX.

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