El Ateneo de Madrid

Many books have been written about Juan Ponce de Leon. Many of them fall short because not enough research has been done on the man's life, his ancestors and who his legitimate wife was. The author has spent over ten years researching within the Ministry of Culture Spain to retrieve documents and has come away with some new and exciting discoveries. This book has been written for the historian as well as the amateur genealogist. John Browne Ayes is an experienced Biogeographical DNA Genealogist and Paleographologist. He has had his yDNA and mtDNA tested and has used the scientific results to...

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En las últimas décadas del siglo XX la cuenca media del río Magdalena era un territorio azotado por distintas violencias protagonizadas por guerrilleros, paramilitares, narcotraficantes y fuerza pública. Bajo este espacio incandescente, como durmientes casi imperceptibles, estaban las ruinas de unas estructuras culturales venidas a menos, unas faenas tradicionales apocadas o disminuidas y unas idiosincrasias de provincia derruidas que estaban reducidas apenas a estereotipos que parecieran vivir, en muchos casos, con creencias de otros tiempos. En estas circunstancias no era extraño...

Este libro reúne doce estudios sobre la historia social del período colonial en los Andes peruanos y ecuatorianos, que se publicaron en Europa y América Latina a lo largo de los últimos quince años. Para esta edición han sido reagrupados alrededor de tres grandes temas (pareja y familia como reveladores sociales, resistencia negra, y fallas y grietas del sistema colonial), pero en conjunto son el fruto de una reflexión a largo plazo sobre las expresiones y el significado de los comportamientos sociales, el manejo por los dominados (esclavos, indígenas, mujeres) de las pocas...