El comercio romano en el Portus Ilicitanus

Traces the history of the Jews in Spain until the expulsion in 1492 in regard to relations between the Crown, the Church, and the populace regarding the Jews and Conversos. Discusses, also, the fate of the Conversos during the 16th century. Focuses on Castile, with special attention to the city of Ávila. Asserts that anti-Jewish hostility in Spain, already from the time of the Visigoths, was not based on racism, but rather on negative religious stereotypes rooted in the minds of the populace and of the lower clergy, as well as on socioeconomic factors, such as the rise of Jews to dominant...

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Este libro tiene la arriesgada pretensión de ofrecer un pasaje a un lugar en el que apenas ha estado nadie. El lugar es la historia que está más allá de lo social, no en contra de lo social. En el siglo XX, el triunfo del pensamiento de izquierda –un pensamiento masculino espléndido– ha ido llevando a la gente a creer que toda la historia es social. Y, sin embargo, no es así, como han aprendido por experiencia y con padecimiento algunas feministas que, en la década de los setenta, empezaron a escribir historia de las mujeres guiadas, con ilusión, por el paradigma de lo social....

Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.