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"Fine political geography of central Nueva Granada (Santa Fe prov.) was originally prepared as a master's thesis. Demonstrates how changing property boundaries and land use both illustrated and activated shifts in social power relationships. For example, the dislocation of indigenous communities helped weaken the corregidores de naturales, which, in turn, facilitated the rise of other local administrators and jurisdictions and quickened the pace of miscegenation and citizenship expansion"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

La historia de Santa Marta y su territorio de influencia empieza antes del Descubrimiento, la Conquista y la Colonización española, con la presencia de varios pueblos indígenas, siendo los taironas el de mayor desarrollo cultural.Muchos de los temas históricos o económicos de esta provincia carecen de profundización, por lo que esta obra abarca un intervalo de tiempo más amplio tocando los aspectos históricos más relevantes.

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...

La Guerra Fría es, sin lugar a dudas, uno de los hechos históricos más notables del siglo XX: el siglo de las guerras mundiales; la guerra que dividió a la humanidad en extremos ideológicos y que nos heredó esa conducta humana con presencia de sus prácticas hasta lo corrido del presente siglo. Este es, además, un conflicto que no ha sido lo suficientemente estudiado para el caso colombiano. La existencia en el país de una violencia interna originada en las ansias del poder, ha marginado el estudio de cómo este conflicto mundial afectó la vida nacional, limitando la investigación a ...

In the sixteenth century, in the eyes of the ruling class, land, arable land, remained the basis of all prosperity. As the dignitary rose in rank, he acquired the rights to more and larger areas of real estate. Theoretically, nobody was the owner of the land. The land belonged to the collective owner, calpulli, to public institutions such as temples, or to the city itself. There was no private ownership of the land, there was collective ownership with individual right of use.