Los Romanos

Hace 150 mil años un simio se puso de pie y abandonó África. Hoy se aventura en el interior del átomo y en los confines del universo. La humanidad camina lentamente, pero de pronto hay un salto sobre el abismo, una explosión transformadora y radical. Eso es revolución, y ha marcado todo lo que somos. La revolución es la esencia de la humanidad; es un antes y un después, un punto sin retorno; es un giro drástico, vertiginoso. Es un acontecimiento después del cual las cosas nunca vuelven a ser iguales. La revolución humana. Una historia de la civilización es un viaje a través de...

The first references of man as a navigator of the seas are found in Genesis. Through this book (That was not in my History of Navigation book) you will know how the first navigations were. You will be able to know the myths of the sea, seaworthy superstitions or the history of mythical ships.

This study offers a profound study of Arrufat's play, using most recent critical trends concerning the performance aspect of the drama. It examines the genre of the drama and its relationship to the phenomenon of the Cuban Revolution, Arrufat as a Cuban playwright of the 60s and his re-writing of the Greek theme of the fratricidal fight in Aeschylus' Seven Against Thebes. Also contains a recent interview with Arrufat in which he describes the social circumstances surrounding the play and some of his classical re-writing techniques.

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...