The Mexican and Mexican American Experience in the 19th Century

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...

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Los aspectos estrafalarios de la vida e ideas de Mier impedían a veces que lo tomaran en serio. Aquí viene la primera edición crítica de uno de los testimonios más importantes sobre la crisis de la Independencia mexicana y, más generalmente, hispanoamericana, y de una fuente poco conocida de la "Carta Profética" de Simón Bolívar. De mamotreto publicado en pésimas condiciones, la Historia pasa a ser una obra legible. Cotejando el texto con sus fuentes, este libro estudia los métodos -no siempre ortodoxos- de Mier como historiador. Aporta muchos datos nuevos sobre su papel de...

Reuni n de trabajos, fruto del di logo y de las controversias que genera el estudio de fen menos culturales concretos entre los historiadores del mundo hisp nico de la Edad Moderna: el encuentro y simbiosis intelectual de dos mundos distantes y pr ximos a la vez.