Guía General Descriptiva de la República Mexicana, |...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Michael D. Coe, uno de los mas importantes mayologos de la actualidad, relata en este libro la historia de lo que el considera "una de las aventuras intelectuales mas interesantes de nuestro tiempo": una historia polemica, de enfrentamientos intelectuales entre los distintos expertos que, si bien con ideas distintas, a veces directamente opuestas, participaron en la ardua labor del desciframiento de los glifos mayas. Knorosov, Thompson y Proskouriakoff, protagonistas de esta aventura, aparecen retratados finamente por Coe en este libro.

Conozca el arte gótico, desarrollado entre los siglos XIII y XV, con la vida urbana, la introducción de la moneda y la banca y la creación de las universidades. Un estilo que destaca por el uso de la luz, el color, la expresividad y el naturalismo y una simbología propia . El libro comienza hablando de los principales acontecimientos de la época en la que se desarrolló el arte gótico, como la expansión de la vida urbana, introducción de la moneda y la banca, creación de las universidades, fortalecimiento del poder municipal, la reforma cisterciense, etcétera. A continuación, se...