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América Latina no solamente ha sufrido el despojo del oro y de la plata, del caucho y del cobre y del petróleo. También le han expropiado la memoria para que no sepa de dónde viene y no pueda averiguar adónde va. Memoria del fuego es una tentativa de rescate de la historia viva de las Américas en todas sus dimensiones, olores, sabores, colores, dolores. Este primer volumen, Los nacimientos, comienza en la etapa precolombina y se extiende hasta el siglo XVII. El segundo abarca los siglos XVIII y XIX, y el último llega hasta nuestros días. Que el lector sienta que la historia está...

Excerpt from Historia de Nuevo Leon Con Noticias Sobre Coahuila, Tejas, Nuevo Mexico About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast...

The Myth of the Non-Russian explores the magical realist prose of two non-Slavic authors writing in Russian in the Soviet Union in the 1970s-1980s. Erika Haber argues that these authors juxtaposed their native myth with Soviet myth, thus undermining the Soviet prescription of national conformity in art by suggesting a plurality of worlds and truths.

This study surveys the changing urban topography of the Iberian peninsular from the 4th to 7th centuries AD, paying particular attention to the Christianisation of the urban landscape. It compiles a catalogue of episcopal seats and other urban centres, noting changes in terms of ecclesiastical building, the adaptation of public spaces to Christian ritual activity and the chaging funerary landscape.