Historia de Las Ordenes de Caballeria: Pte. Las Diez Y Siete Ordenes Españolas Estinguidas, Y Las Existentes En La Actualidad...

Studies in Spanish American regional history have, as yet, made little attempt to incorporate the struggles for independence within the context of provincial society and politics viewed over the broader period that spans the late colonial and early national experience of Latin America. This book attempts a new perspective: it emphasises the provincial milieu and popular participation in its varied forms, often ambiguous and contradictory. The central aim is to examine social conflicts, chiefly in the Mexican provinces of Puebla, Guadalajara, Michoacán, and Guanajuato from the middle of the...

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The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...

Este libro de Richard H. Wilkinson, profesor de egiptología de la Universidad de Arizona, constituye una excelente introducción al lenguaje simbólico de los jeroglíficos. Está concebido como una guía de los signos más utilizados en la pintura y la escultura egipcias, organizados temáticamente, con la descripción y explicación de sus distintos significados, y acompañado de magníficas ilustraciones. Se trata, en definitiva, de una herramienta indispensable para contemplar el arte egipcio de forma más próxima a como lo hacían los antiguos egipcios.