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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...

Este volumen nos ofrece una visión de conjunto de la sociedad y la economía de la América latina colonial a través del análisis de algunos de los mejores especialistas actuales. Nicolás Sánchez-Albornoz nos habla en él de la población desde el punto de vista demográfico, mientras el profesor Lockhart, de la Universidad de California, se ocupa de la organización y el cambio social y los profesores Bowser y Gibson estudian, respectivamente, los esclavos africanos y las sociedades indias bajo dominio español. En cuanto a la economía, Peter Bakewell comienza con el estudio de ese...

Drug trafficking goes beyond organized crime. It is a way of life that has its own idols and even its own saints. Mexico's acclaimed journalist Jorge Fernandez Menendez unmasks the unavoidable presence of drug trafficking, its resources and organization, smuggling and weaponry, and its overall lack of control along the Mexican border. These elements, combined, constitute the alternate power to the State: The Other Authority.

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