Historia de México 1

Viajes de Agua V es la continuación de una línea de trabajo en la que el autor pone en contacto a viajeros, en este caso peregrinos, con diferentes tipos de aguas, las que calman la sed, limpian los cuerpos, e inclusos los sanan. En este caso, las aguas también serán las de los ríos que deban salvar los diferentes Caminos, describiendo los puentes y otros artificios utilizados para cruzarlos. El autor ha repasado cuatrocientas cincuenta libros y artículos para realizar este Libro de libros, siguiendo una docena de Caminos a Santiago, que seguro no son todos pues cada peregrino hace su...

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

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n the last decades—and especially since the 1990s—there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century in Southern Cone culture. Popular nineteenth-century figures (indios, gauchos, letrados, and cautivas) have reentered the national literary scene in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Nineteenth-century heroes such as San Martín and Artigas are again the main protagonists of Southern Cone theater, film, and literature. Canonical nineteenth-century texts (La cautiva, Martín Fierro, Facundo) are being rewritten one more time in different artistic fields. Foundational...