Monografía de Los Mamíferos de Yucatán

En una epoca extremedamente convulsa (s. IV-V), Julia sufre la perdida de su familia excepto su hermano. En su busqueda huye de su Cartagena natal e inicia un accidentado periplo que le lleva a recuperar los restos de Prisciliano, convertirse en preceptora imperial, espia al servicio de Eutropio, amiga de la Elia Eudoxia e Hypatia, curandera, empresaria y consejera de la corte en Constantinopla, Alejandria, Roma, Ravena y Barcelona, vive los importantes cambios que, a caballo de dos siglos, sacuden el imperio en el umbral de su definitiva desmembracion. Descendiente de una saga de...

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...

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La admiracion, franca o encubierta, que produce Benito Juarez se debe muy especialmente a que supo ser el sagaz guia de una irrepetible generacion de mexicanos, la nacida a raiz del comienzo del movimiento de Independencia que logro restaurar la Republica. Roeder logra en Juarez y su Mexico uno de los mejores estudios con que se cuenta sobre el hombre y la epoca juarista.