La técnica en el mundo antiguo

En esta obra el autor analiza la gran guerra de resistencia que libraron los indios tepehuanes en 1616 en su intento por deshacerse de los invasores españoles, la más importante de las guerras indias después de la del Mixtón, que puso en jaque a las autoridades civiles de la provincia de la Nueva Vizcaya y amenazó con trastocar el régimen virreinal y destruyó el sistema misional jesuítico de la Sierra Madre Occidental. A partir de una lectura atenta de las fuentes primarias, el autor encuentra que el arma ideológica principal que utilizaron los tepehuanes para organizar y sustentar...

This volume contains several oral accounts that were preserved from the Yoruba tradition that allows us to explore our roots. Their exchanges are steeped in cultural rituals, references, and principles that distinguishes them. In this book, the author looks at the meyi, one part of the te two categories comprised of the Ifa.

Throughout the decades following the death of Mariano Jose de Larra, scholars have been intrigued by the impact that both the man and his writings have had on generation after generation of Spanish and Latin American writers. This study looks at the genesis of Larra's genius by carefully tabulating and identifying his sources in literature and history. This important resource book will help Larra scholars understand more completely the intricate and complex system of images, allusions and references "Figaro" used to compose his more than 250 newspaper articles. More importantly, the work...

Profiles nine important figures in the history of México including the Emperor Montezuma, Hernán Cortés, Benito Juárez, and Cuauhtemoc, the last Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán.