The Nirex Collection: Diplomacy in revolution

This book deals with the evangelization of Spanish-speaking America between the European conquest and independence. The study investigates the concepts and strategies of catechesis, the general conditions of Church law and national politics as well as the prerequisites and conditions on the part of the Indians. New and specific forms of mutual understanding, of mediation and resistance developed through the transfer of European knowledge to a second geographical area and through the contact of cultures and religions. These new forms evolved beyond the sphere of religion and determine cultural ...

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En este libro se estudia la obra de cuatro hombres excepcionales del México colonial, que quisieron cambiar el rumbo de la Historia por medio de la escritura: Diego Muñoz Camargo, Hernando Alvarado Tezozómoc, Domingo Chimalpáhin y Fernando de Alva Ixtlilxóchitl. Como "hijos de los vencidos" comprendieron sagazmente que los nuevos tiempos pertenecían a las letras y no a las armas. Sus obras, estudiadas por vez primera en conjunto, suponen el gran esfuerzo seminal de los pueblos conquistados por recrear la historia de las principales regiones mesoamericanas en lo referente al pasado...

Empobrecido y exhausto tras cincuenta anos de guerras continuas, el gran imperio espanol negocio, en los ultimos anos del siglo XVI y primeros del XVII, tratados con sus tres enemigos mas poderosos: Inglaterra, Francia y los Paises Bajos. Paul Allen sostiene que los gestos de paz del rey formaban, en realidad, parte de una gran estrategia que permitiria a Espana recuperar su fuerza militar y economica mediante enganosos senuelos presentados a sus adversarios para apartarlos de sus empresas militares.