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La introducción del modo de producción moderno supuso que la cuenca media del río Magdalena transitó de un mundo mítico que se expresaba en el canto y la poesía a un mundo histórico que era expresado por la historia y la novela. La poética de la tierra caliente será al mismo tiempo producto y forma de conciencia de un mundo orquestado por unas faenas sociales concretas, de las atadas a la ribera y a la selva, de las emplazadas en medio de los cultivos, de las adentradas en las profundidades de las minas, de las que surgieron con las aldeas primordiales. El ascenso y la caída de...

De la colección Nudos de la Historia argentina, este libro despliega los orígenes del peronismo y la construcción del 17 de octubre como mito fundacional.

Seventeen Egyptologists and archaeologists probe the most compelling mysteries of ancient Egypt in this illustrated collection of 70 brief essays. Answers to age-old questions about Egyptian burial rituals, architecture, and royalty are provided, and recent discoveries are discussed—evidence that Tutankhamen was murdered, boats buried intact deep in the desert beside the tombs of the earliest kings, unexplained shafts inside the Great Pyramids aligned with the stars, and a massive mausoleum built for the many sons of Ramses II. The essays are supplemented with evocative photographs,...

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