El P. José de Acosta

Tomo I de Chile en la Colección América Latina en la Historia Contemporánea. Dirigido por Joaquín Fermandois y coordinado por Ricardo Couyoumdjian. La independencia de Chile fue el resultado de un complejo proceso que, doscientos años después, sigue suscitando el debate entre los historiadores y el interés entre los amantes de la historia. Conocer las características de este periodo, las causas de la emancipación y sus repercusiones en el escenario internacional es el objetivo de este volumen, el primero de una serie de cinco sobre la historia contemporánea chilena. Los sucesos de...

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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...

Panorámica general del mundo árabe e islámico en sus diversos aspectos a través de temas significativos como historia (al-Andalus), política contemporánea (conflicto árabe-israelí), sociedad (fundamentalismo, inmigración).