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The 18th century was a wealth of knowledge, exploration and rapidly growing technology and expanding record-keeping made possible by advances in the printing press. In its determination to preserve the century of revolution, Gale initiated a revolution of its own: digitization of epic proportions to preserve these invaluable works in the largest archive of its kind. Now for the first time these high-quality digital copies of original 18th century manuscripts are available in print, making them highly accessible to libraries, undergraduate students, and independent scholars. Western literary...

La política de acomodación del jesuita Mateo Ricci, pionero en la cristianización de China a fines del siglo XVI, constituyó toda una revolución y originó la llamada Controversia de los ritos chinos y malabares, que se prolongaría durante más de doscientos años. La Santa Sede, y Europa en general, creyó hallar idolatría en los tolerantes métodos de los misioneros de la Compañía. Este libro analiza cómo en el siglo XVIII una polémica religioso-antropológica fue utilizada por los enemigos de la orden jesuita para contribuir a su desprestigio, en una colosal campaña...

Este libro es un intento de reconstruir y explicar los procesos que mediaron entre aquella gran expectativa económica de comienzos del siglo XVI, los logros de la Argentina de comienzos del siglo XX y su crisis posterior.

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