Santander

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...

George Louis Beer Prize Winner Wallace K. Ferguson Prize Finalist A Marginal Revolution Book of the Year “A groundbreaking contribution...Intellectual history at its best.” —Stephen Wertheim, Foreign Affairs Neoliberals hate the state. Or do they? In the first intellectual history of neoliberal globalism, Quinn Slobodian follows a group of thinkers from the ashes of the Habsburg Empire to the creation of the World Trade Organization to show that neoliberalism emerged less to shrink government and abolish regulations than to redeploy them at a global level. It was a project that changed...

Paleography, translation of the mayan to Spanish and analysis by Laura Caso Barrera with the participation of Mario M. Aliphat Fernandez.

La entrega de una vida al estudio, el cuidado de detalles y el dato preciso, el amor por la patria ante agresiones extranjeras sin fin y el conocimiento profundo de los vericuetos de la política nacional caracterizan el quehacer histórico de Berta Ulloa. Este volumen de homenaje recoge las investigaciones de colegas suyos interesados en los mismos temas y periodos que le han apasionado a ella. Los trabajos contribuyen a la comprensión de la historia del antes, durante y después de la revolución mexicana, desde los ámbitos nacional e internacional. Se echa una mirada hacia el vecino del...