Heridos de la guerra

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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...

Durante los siglos XVI y XVII, gran parte de la Real Audiencia de Quito es un territorio de frontera. En la mitad septentrional, la autoridad de los funcionarios coloniales se limita a los valles se­rranos y solo en algunas ocasiones se extiende hacia el territorio situado en los contrafuertes andinos. Aunque la población de Qui­to no se encuentra directamente amenazada por los indígenas hostiles, a uno y otro lado de la ciudad, tanto al este como al oeste, es posible encontrar, apenas a un par de jornadas, grupos indíge­nas hostiles, denominados "indios de guerra" en los documentos...

Este libro sigue las huellas de los dos hermanos Alexander y Wilhelm von Humboldt en la Nueva Granada y actual Colombia, para mostrar los caminos históricos de cooperación e intercambio científico entre Alemania y Colombia. Desde el famoso viaje de Alexander von Humboldt a América y su encuentro con José Celestino Mutis y otros reconocidos investigadores del Nuevo Mundo en Santa Fe de Bogotá en el año 1801, la cooperación científica entre Alemania y Colombia se ha desarrollado en un amplio panorama de encuentros, relaciones, correspondencias e intercambios. Por otro lado, es menos...