La Guerra de la Independencia, (1808-1814)

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Los objetos realizados para el placer de reyes, nobles, comerciantes e incluso de la gente corriente ofrecen fascinantes testimonios de las modas y pasatiempos de la vida medieval. El amor cortés, la heráldica, los banquetes, la caza y la agricultura proporcionaron buenos temas decorativos. Los cacharros diseñados para comer o beber a menudo estaban decorados con inscripciones, o bien modelados en forma de rostro humano o de caballero. Las bestias del bosque, representadas en el famoso cuerno de Savernake, contrastan con las escenas y símbolos de amor que aparecen tanto en arquetas...

"A fascinating and beautifully argued interpretation of how the American war in Southeast Asia affected Chicano communities. The author provides the most complete and well-documented study to date of this important chapter in U.S. history and its impact on an ethnic group with long-standing traditions of military service, assimilation, and resistance to injustice. Oropeza's book is what students of the Chicano Movement, especially the Mexican American role in antiwar activities during the Vietnam War period, have been waiting for."—George Mariscal, author of Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano...

Este libro es una obra conmemorativa de una fecha histórica relacionada con el Bicentenario del proceso de Independencia de Colombia. Justamente posee problemáticas variadas, pero siempre con fenomenologías en torno a 1819, verbigracia, los antecedentes, las distintas miradas del problema histórico e historiográfico desde diversas ópticas de análisis (como en efecto las hay), sus repercusiones y, por supuesto, lo que representó a lo largo del tiempo para la construcción del Estado-Nación.