Manual de Historia Medieval

Catherine Julien's new translation of Titu Cusi Yupanqui's Relasçion de como los Españoles Entraron en el Peru--an account of the Spanish conquest of Peru by the last indigenous ruler of the Inca empire--features student-oriented annotation, facing-page Spanish, and an Introduction that sets this remarkably rich source in its cultural, historical, and literary contexts.

Los años cortos pero intensos de la II República marcaron la sociedad de una manera clara y definitiva en los aspectos socio-políticos y en la vida cultural. El trabajo en la ciudad, la vida cotidiana y las generaciones de intelectuales que se mezclaron como la del 27 y 98.

En este libro Samper, hombre de letras de Colombia, relata sus viajes, en pleno siglo XIX, por España, Gran Bretaña, Francia, Suiza y Alemania.

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...