El conquistador conquistado

"Fine political geography of central Nueva Granada (Santa Fe prov.) was originally prepared as a master's thesis. Demonstrates how changing property boundaries and land use both illustrated and activated shifts in social power relationships. For example, the dislocation of indigenous communities helped weaken the corregidores de naturales, which, in turn, facilitated the rise of other local administrators and jurisdictions and quickened the pace of miscegenation and citizenship expansion"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Alfonso X el Sabio es una de las figuras más importante de la historia de España. Legislador, historiador, poeta o conquistador, aunó en sí las cualidades más importantes para convertirse en el primer gran rey. Desde las campañas de reconquista hasta la fundación de la Escuela de Traductores de Toledo, pasando por su intensa labor diplomática para convertirse en emperador del Sacro Imperio, esta obra, concisa pero completa, ofrece al lector una visión global de la vida política, cultural y militar de Alfonso X durante sus más de treinta años de reinado. Un recorrido tan complejo...

Esta obra compila las miradas de 20 historiadores sobre la "revolucionaria" década de 1860. Enfocando tres regiones distintas -América del Norte, del Sur y Europa- explora las formas en que sociedades diferentes enfrentaron una serie de transformaciones compartidas, que dislocaron y reconstituyeron el mundo que conocían

An account, including stunning photographs, of the search by some of the women of the town of Calama, Chile, for the remains of their loved ones who were murdered and "disappeared" by the Pinochet regime.

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