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...

American Indian educator and political philosopher Jack Forbes's Columbus and Other Cannibals was one of the founding texts of the anti-civilization movement when it was first published in 1978. His history of terrorism, genocide, and ecocide told from a Native American point of view has continued to inspire America's most influential activists for decades. Now available for the first time in a Spanish translation, this radical critique of the modern 'civilized" lifestyle is more vital than ever before. El libro del pensador nativo americano Jack Forbes, Colon y otros caníbales, era uno de...

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Zoé Oldenbourg (1916-2002) llegó a Francia huyendo de la revolución bolchevique y es autora de una amplia obra narrativa y ensayística con la Edad Media, las cruzadas y el catarismo como protagonistas privilegiados. Tras terminar durante la segunda guerra mundial Barro y cenizas (1944), saltó a la fama internacional al conseguir el Premio Fémina con la novela La piedra amgular (1953), a la que siguieron Los Quemados (1960) y Las ciudades carnales (1961). Es autora también de dos obras dramáticas situadas en la Edad Media, L ́évêque et la vieille dame ou la belle-mère de Peytaví...

El presente estudio de Julio Caro Baroja arranca de un análisis de la configuración de la sociedad mixta morisco-cristiana y sigue, después, las vicisitudes de una peculiar organización social en la que vivían inmersos moros granadinos y cristianos viejos. Caro Baroja profundiza en las condiciones reales de la sociedad y aclara definitivamente el significado religioso del problema.