Los saberes jesuitas en la primera globalización (Siglos XVI-XVIII)

A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...

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The essays in this volume evaluate progress made in the implementation of the peace agreements in Guatemala and signal some of the key challenges for future political and institutional reform.

Este libro intenta dar algunas ideas sobre lo que han sido y son la literatura y las literaturas en la vida del hombre, y ello desde Homero y aun antes, desde que el hombre es hombre, hasta el siglo XVII d. C. Este es el ambicioso intento de este libro. Ninguno conocemos todas las Literaturas unidas al que llamamos Río de la Literatura: las que van desde el Sumerio al Próximo Oriente, luego al Griego, al Latín y a las Literaturas descendientes de éste en Europa, hasta la fecha indicada. En suma, se trata de estudiar las relaciones dentro de las diversas fases dela Literatura, fundadas...