La Argentina (Edición Corregida y Actualizada)

Como respuesta a la obra de Juan A. Llorente, Noticia histórica de las tres provincias vascongadas (Madrid, 1806-1808) el consultor perpetuo del Señorío de Vizcaya Francisco de Aranguren y Sobrado escribió el presente texto, del que se publicó en 1807 el primer volumen, quedando el segundo inédito hasta la fecha. El resultado es un texto que conecta una cultura formal producida en el contexto tradicional de la Monarquía católica con la nueva circunstancia de la crisis del sistema en que ésta se había desenvuelto. Ante tal crisis del sistema operativo más esencial de referencia el...

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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...

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...