La sociedad internacional en el cambio de siglo (1885-1919)

Retórica, historia y polémica is a study of Bartolomé de las Casas' writings, within the context of the European Renaissance intellectual tradition. The book examines the rhetoric and "politics of discourse" to demonstrate how the Dominican advocate of Amerindian rights subverted the relationship between Renaissance Christian humanism and New World experience, thus arriving at the most pervasive antihegemonic perspective of the conquest. The project focuses principally on Las Casas' most ambitious text, Historia de las Indias (1522-1527), although examples are also drawn from De unico...

In the Greek world the gods were intricately linked to most aspects of life so it should be no surprise that weapons and military equipment were given as offerings to them in Greek sanctuaries.

El objetivo de esta monografía colectiva, centrada de forma no exclusiva en Hispania, es mostrar, desde la República a la Antigüedad tardía, de qué modo la provincia, nueva forma de vertebración implantada por los romanos, puedo comenzar a asumirse como nuevo criterio de referencia, analizando los procesos por los que se fue generando una identidad provincial.

Martin Diaz Tamayo (1904-1995) was an illiterate peasant from Pinar del Rio, Cuba, who joined the Cuban army at the age of sixteen and rose to the rank of major general.