La Conquista del Peru

Empeñado desde hace treinta años en recopilar y sacar a la luz los documentos más relevantes de nuestro pasado, resultaba inevitable enfrentarme antes o después a los Libros de Visitas de la Orden de Santiago. Se trata de una de las colecciones más importantes del Archivo Histórico Nacional, formada por una serie de enormes y desgastados volúmenes manuscritos procedentes en buena medida de los siglos XV y XVI, que habían logrado sobrevivir a la acción destructiva de las diferentes guerras y al abandono y deterioro del tiempo y las desamortizaciones. Custodiados desde sus orígenes en ...

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...

En los anales historiograficos -dicen los autores en el prefacio- es poco lo que se sabe sobre lo que ocurrio en el estado de Durango durante la Revolucion. La intencion de los autores es reparar esa ausencia historiografica y profundizar en el papel que tuvo Durango, cuna de Pancho Villa, uno de los protagonistas de la lucha armada mexicana.

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