Espacios, climas y aventuras: El Galeón de Filipinas y la fragata de las Marianas en el Pacífico occidental (1680-1700)

The book edited by researchers Thomas Calvo and Paulina Machuca - both members of the project "Proyecto Vencer la distancia" (Overcoming the distance) - comprises the participation of fourteen specialists in the discipline of social sciences. "If the Philippines and Mexico had had very close relationships in the two and a half centuries that the Manila Galleon was sailing (1565-1815), the relations diluted when Mexico chose Independence and the Philippines continued under Spanish domain until 1898. It was precisely these years of disagreement that we were interested in: like all the periods...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Este libro transcurre durante la decada de 1920 y se centra en la conformacion y trayectoria de la "Union Latino Americana" asociacion de caracter antiimperialista y latinoamericanista cuya finalidad esencial, era la de generar una opinion publica favorable a la unidad cultural, politica y economica de los paises de la region, intentando reflotar el viejo ideal bolivariano. Examina uno de los instrumentos claves utilizados por los miembros que conformaron posteriormente esta organizacion: "Boletin de Ideas, Libros y Revistas de la America Latina," emprendimiento periodistico que precedio a la ...

“Pasajeros en tránsito. Una historia real”, investiga y relata los tres intentos de seis exiliados chilenos, realizados en 1984, por volver al país de origen. Regresar al territorio prohibido contra la voluntad de la dictadura, un comportamiento subversivo y peligroso, es un hecho casi marginal en el contexto de las brutales violaciones a los derechos humanos sufridas por chilenos y latinoamericanos en las décadas de los setenta y ochenta. Sin embargo, la importancia del texto de Arrate consiste en excavar en lo anecdótico del hecho para dimensionarlo, más allá de sus implicaciones...