Música, dictadura, resistencia

Los vestigios de la vida de los pueblos cazadores–recolectores que habitaron la región que hoy ocupa Coahuila, resultan parte invaluable del patrimonio cultural de la entidad. En el libro Antigüedades coahuilenses, Rufino Rodríguez Garza recopila más de 35 crónicas de viaje y descubrimientos que abonan en este tema. A través de innumerables recorridos de exploración, a lo largo de más de cuatro décadas, el autor ha contribuido como pocos al descubrimiento y difusión de gran cantidad de parajes de considerable interés arqueológico, paleontológico e histórico existentes en el...

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...

El historiador y filosofo Christian Jaramillo, presenta un documento de gran valor histrico sobre la violencia en Colombia, visto dentro de la concepcin de una Filosofa Liberal, que comprende desde la dcada de los aos 1942 hasta el 2012. 70 aos de violencia en Colombia, narrados con una prosa gil, vibrante y agradable, en donde describe su experiencia al describir los hechos de que fue vctima, hasta que los Estados Unidos le concedi el asilo poltico en el ao 2000. Todo ello enmarcado en un contexto histrico. Hace fuertes crticas al liberalismo aplicado en Colombia y a sus lderes, culpndolos...

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