El resurgir español 1713-1748

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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...

Este libro pretende ser una aproximación a la historia, las instituciones y la mentalidad del Egipto Faraónico desde la perspectiva de los textos y de las fuentes escritas en general. Ofrece un recorrido cronológico que arranca desde los inicios del estado faraónico hasta su final a manos de persas, griegos y romanos. Dedica secciones específicas a la sociedad, la economía, la religión y la cultura, con el objetivo de acercar al lector al pensamiento y la forma de ver el mundo del hombre egipcio. Por otra parte, los más de cien textos que conforman esta antología se ofrecen en su...

"Vapor al norte, tren al sur," aborda un tema hasta ahora no considerado por la historiografia como lo es el estudio y explicacion de los viajes gubernamentales ocurridos en el Chile decimononico. Interpretados como una practica politica promovida desde el poder destinada a captar la adhesion y la simpatia popular, a traves de ellos se analizan los cambios producidos en el sistema politico chileno que, en la epoca de Balmaceda, hicieron posible novedosas formas de representacion del Presidente y la expansion de su base de apoyo, asi como tambien la dilatacion del espacio publico nacional y la ...