EL MARMOR EN HISPANIA: EXPLOTACIÓN, USO Y DIFUSIÓN EN ÉPOCA ROMANA

Patricios en contienda explora las maneras en que los cuadros de costumbres fueron usados en Colombia, Ecuador y Venezuela para nacionalizar poblaciones heterogeneas y producir pueblos nacionales para estos tres paises tras la disolucion de la llamada Gran Colombia (1819-1831). Al situar los cuadros de costumbres en el contexto de las guerras civiles y reformas liberales, esta investigacion muestra como las antiguas elites orgullosas de su abolengo colonial--como Jose Maria Vergara y Vergara (1831-1872) o Fermin Toro (1806-1865)--los usaron para legitimarse frente a las nuevas elites que...

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...

Throughout the decades following the death of Mariano Jose de Larra, scholars have been intrigued by the impact that both the man and his writings have had on generation after generation of Spanish and Latin American writers. This study looks at the genesis of Larra's genius by carefully tabulating and identifying his sources in literature and history. This important resource book will help Larra scholars understand more completely the intricate and complex system of images, allusions and references "Figaro" used to compose his more than 250 newspaper articles. More importantly, the work...

Este libro de Karl Jaspers no es un aporte mas a la bibliografia suscitada por el pensamiento de Nietzsche sino un verdadero hito en la historia de la filosofia. Jaspers plantea la singularidad extrema del hombre que influyo en tantas personalidades del mundo contemporaneo -desde Freud, Jung y Heidegger hasta Hannah Arendt, Foucault y Deleuze- y pone de manifiesto el aspecto revulsivo de sus actitudes y actividades, que tantas incomprensiones y malentendidos acarrearon en el tiempo en que le toco vivir y en los anos que siguieron. Aparte de aclarar el significado de muchos vocablos personales ...