Historia Moderna de España (1469 - 1665)

A beautiful slipcase holds three volumes on the history of Bogota, making this resource an indispensable and fascinating documentary of Colombia's capital. The first two volumes that cover the conquest, colonialism, and the 19th century have been updated with fresh designs, while a completely new third volume covers the 20th century and includes the history of Bogota's expansion, the development of services and institutions, and the achievements and failures of more recent times. This lovely collection constitutes a legacy of obligatory reading for both its current and future inhabitants....

Studies in Spanish American regional history have, as yet, made little attempt to incorporate the struggles for independence within the context of provincial society and politics viewed over the broader period that spans the late colonial and early national experience of Latin America. This book attempts a new perspective: it emphasises the provincial milieu and popular participation in its varied forms, often ambiguous and contradictory. The central aim is to examine social conflicts, chiefly in the Mexican provinces of Puebla, Guadalajara, Michoacán, and Guanajuato from the middle of the...

Este volumen explora, de manera detallada, las estrategias discursivas diseñadas por el diario El Tiempo para representar la oposición como una amenaza inminente para la democracia y el estado ideal de cosas alcanzado por el Frente Nacional. Se examinan las coyunturas políticas, las traiciones y las vidas de los personajes públicos, para mostrar la estrategia del periódico: crear un imaginario donde el bien supremo y los ideales nobles estuvieran del lado de los ideólogos y políticos del Frente Nacional, mientras que el mal y la anarquía estuvieran del lado de los ideólogos y...

"Although exhaustively researched, book is too detailed and not well written. Work does not focus on Cuba directly; rather, it studies the powerful influence of Cuban proslavery interests in the fight against reforms and abolition carried on by Valencia's urban patriarchs"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.