La economía política en las expediciones ilustradas a la América española (1734-1810).

A partir de la novedosa relación entre historia y memoria, este volumen busca, desde un enfoque historiográfico, la respuesta a cuestiones relacionadas con la historización del presente y el uso público de la historia.

Este libro investiga la historia de la pasión por coleccionar desde el Renacimiento hasta nuestros días. Todo objeto de colección, ya sea una caja de cerillas o la uña de un mártir, tiene un significado que trasciende al objeto mismo; es un tótem. Y el afán incesante por poseerlo convierte al coleccionista en un antropólogo cultural. Philipp Blom destila los temas que subyacen a esta pasión aparentemente tan inasible: conquista y posesión, caos y memoria, un vacío que colmar y la conciencia de la propia mortalidad. «Una crónica sobre la rareza de la mente humana, y la maravilla...

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Many books have been written about Juan Ponce de Leon. Many of them fall short because not enough research has been done on the man's life, his ancestors and who his legitimate wife was. The author has spent over ten years researching within the Ministry of Culture Spain to retrieve documents and has come away with some new and exciting discoveries. This book has been written for the historian as well as the amateur genealogist. John Browne Ayes is an experienced Biogeographical DNA Genealogist and Paleographologist. He has had his yDNA and mtDNA tested and has used the scientific results to...