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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...

En el presente libro, el autor utiliza los restos arqueológicos y los textos antiguos para explorar la historia de Mesopotamia, desde los tiempos prehistóricos hasta la ascensión de Babilonia, a comienzos del segundo milenio a.C. En su relato, documentado con ilustraciones procedentes de las amplias colecciones del British Museum, se refleja el dramático flujo y reflujo del destino de sumerios, acadios y otros habitantes de la región mesopotámica, esbozando las historias de cada uno de ellos y reuniéndolas en un todo coherente.

“O meu Sen acuse de recibo (sección de opinión na edición de Deza de Faro de Vigo) de principios do ano 2012, con artigos que xiraban arredor do centro xeográfico e do quilómetro 0, con referencias ó noso "fillo ilustre" o Matemático Rodríguez, fixo que algúns lectores e veciños de Deza se dirixiran a min cunha suxestión: contribuír á recuperación da memoria de moitos cidadáns ilustres.”

Es éste un libro singular, un atípico manual. Un manual cuyo objeto se encuentra a medio camino de la historia del pensamiento político, la filosofía y la historia cultural: una historia de las ideologías. Unas ideologías que toman, en este manual, la forma de un complejo sistema cultural que engloba todas aquellas formas, materiales o no, que dotan de significados a nuestra realidad. Así, los autores analizan las distintas concepciones que, a la manera de la weltanschauung de Dilthey, han marcado el devenir de la humanidad y sus circunstancias históricas. Estamos, pues, ante una...

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...