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This study presents a compelling reflection on the historian's task. Based on his extensive teaching and research experience as well as his rigorous analysis of historical scholarship, Professor Bernardo Ares's study of history sets historical knowledge against the general framework of scientific knowledge. Supported by a thorough definition of the concept of history, Historiology, Research and Didactics focuses on the basic epistemological and methodological questions involved in the study of history, and provides a unique analysis of the didactics of history. Stressing the importance of...

This is an invaluable comprehensive guide to the archival holdings and manuscript collections located in depositories throughout Cuba.

This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a fascinating tale of survival against the highest odds, and it highlights Native Americans and their interactions with the newcomers in a manner seldom seen in writings of the period. In this...

Esta obra tiene como objetivo atestiguar el movimiento obrero de Nueva Rosita en la década de los cincuenta. La obra se divide en tres secciones en las que presenta, respectivamente, los antecedentes de la huelga de Nueva Rosita a partir del establecimiento de un pacto de solidaridad por parte de los sindicatos y trabajadores ferrocarrileros, petroleros y mineros y la respuesta gubernamental deformando la legislación obrera; un recuento del extenuante recorrido a pie que duraría cincuenta días, partiendo de Coahuila hacia la Ciudad de México con un enfoque en la interacción entre los...