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La palabra «América» está llena de reminiscencias, nos sugiere a la vez las civilizaciones desaparecidas, los conquistadores, los puritanos y los franceses «madereros», los esclavos y los filibusteros, los gauchos, los plantadores, los inmigrantes que desembarcaron en Nueva York, los «barones del café» brasileños, los indios que cultivan la coca... El continente americano se hace acreedor de su nombre de «Nuevo Mundo» cuando nos referimos a sus pueblos. Todos ellos son el resultado de la fusión de poblaciones en su mayoría procedentes de otros lugares. El Atlas de los pueblos de ...

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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...

Fernando Benítez reconstruye en forma de crónica el camino que siguió el conquistador desde su desembarco en las playas de Veracruz hasta su entrada a la gran Tenochtitlan. El resultado es una sugestiva lección de historia y geografía que culmina en una simbiosis afortunada entre lo viejo y lo nuevo.