La Gomera a través de la cartografía [1588 - 1899]

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La urdimbre y trama de este libro se teje con los acontecimientos de la Conquista y la Colonia en los Reinos de Indias: el choque violento de dos mundos, la instauración del dominio de los europeos, la evangelización, la aculturación por mestizaje de cacicazgos y razas. Simultá-neamente se cumplieron la extracción de las riquezas minerales y su traslado a España, operaciones en extremo complejas, de sorprendente plenitud en vivencias individuales y sociales, episodios centrales de esta saga. La avidez por el oro y la plata determinó la conducta de individuos, parroquias y reinos y los...

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Coincidiendo con el 250 aniversario de la concesión del título de ciudad a Santander, esta lección inaugural del curso académico 2005/06 de la Universidad de Cantabria propone que, aunque su historia como activo puerto de mar se remonta a la Edad Media, la ciudad actual es producto de la modernización de Europa, iniciada en el siglo XVIII y resultado de la iniciativa emprendedora por parte de sus habitantes.