El carlismo

This is the first book to study the taina presence in Puerto Rican literature. It examines Fray Ramon Pane, Sadi Orsini Luiggi, Sebastian Robiou Lamarche, Alejandro Tapia y Rivera, Cayetano Coll y Toste, Rene Marques, Jaime Martinez Tolentino, Carlos Mendez Santos, Eugenio Maria de Hostos, Enrique A. Laguerre and Manuel Mendez Ballester. The book is in Spanish.

Cuban intellectual Roberto Regalado provides a critical analysis of the issues facing Latin America today. He examines the political crises, the emerging social movements on the continent that are spearheading international resistance to neoliberalism-from the water struggles in Bolivia to the landless movement in Brazil-and considers alternative options for development.

This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a fascinating tale of survival against the highest odds, and it highlights Native Americans and their interactions with the newcomers in a manner seldom seen in writings of the period. In this...

Ese libro nos presenta, apoyado en fuentes inglesas, a los diversos protagonistas britanicos en la Nueva Espana durante el primer siglo de colonizacion. Fuente fundamental de este analisis fueron las cronicas del geografo ingles Richard Hakluyt, quien durante el periodo isabelino recogio y difundio gran cantidad de testimonios viajeros, particularmente ingleses, fomentando las empresas de exploracion ultramarina sobre tierras remotas, desconocidas y extranas, como aquellas de la Nueva Espana.