Cowboys and Caudillos

Ernesto Bassi traza la configuración de un espacio geográfico que él llama el Gran Caribe transimperial entre 1760 y 1860. Centrándose en la costa caribeña de Nueva Granada (actual Colombia), el autor demuestra que los residentes de la región no vivieron sus vidas delimitados por fronteras geopolíticas, por el contrario, las actividades transfronterizas de marineros, comerciantes, revolucionarios, indígenas y otros, reflejaban sus percepciones del Caribe como un espacio transimperial donde circulaba el comercio, la información y las personas, cumpliendo y desafiando las regulaciones...

This study is a highly innovative body of research on the supply of raw material in prehistoric Iberia. The archaeological assemblages from recently excavated sites in north-eastern Spain are clearly presented, as are the various methods for the characterisation of flints and the determination of geological origins. The study is important in terms of the new data provided on raw material supply at the end of the Upper Palaeolithic in Iberia and a reconstruction of mobility patterns and resource exploitation of hunter-gatherer groups during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition. In Spanish.

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Resea de la produccin historiogrfica en torno al Segundo Imperio mexicano, este libro recoge las distintas formas en que se ha abordado la aventura imperial en momentos particulares y desde perspectivas varias. En ella se encuentran desde testimonios de soldados del ejrcito francs que acompaaron a Maximiliano, o versiones de historiadores del ltimo tercio del siglo XIX y del XX hasta las perspectivas innovadoras que han marcado nuevos derroteros dentro de las investigaciones sobre aquella poca.