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...

La coreana es una de las tres grandes culturas del Extremo Oriente. Desde el período arcaico hasta el presente, unos tres mil años, ha desarrollado un sucesivo y creciente acervo cultural. Su condición peninsular le ha permitido conciliar características continental y oceánica, situación que ha facilitado su antigua relación con el imperio chino y asimilar, de manera particular, la riqueza cultural de su vecino. Al tiempo que ha debido sostener una difícil vecindad con el imperio japonés. Siempre atenta a preservar los sentimientos de identidad y pertenencia, ha contado con la...

Biografia intelectual de dos vidas - las de Alberdi y Sarmiento - empenadas en derrotar el desierto barbaro, La tradicion republicana define con exactitud un cuadro irrepetible de nuestra historia. El fondo lo constituyen las guerras civiles y la organizacion nacional; el horizonte, las ideas politicas que se fueron formando desde mediados del siglo XVIII hasta la penultima decada del ochocientos. Alberdi y Sarmiento interrogan ese horizonte para arrancar el principio de legitimidad de la republica confrontandolo con la realidad criolla. Esta version revisada y actualizada de La tradicion...

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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...