Mujeres intelectuales en América Latina

Throughout the decades following the death of Mariano Jose de Larra, scholars have been intrigued by the impact that both the man and his writings have had on generation after generation of Spanish and Latin American writers. This study looks at the genesis of Larra's genius by carefully tabulating and identifying his sources in literature and history. This important resource book will help Larra scholars understand more completely the intricate and complex system of images, allusions and references "Figaro" used to compose his more than 250 newspaper articles. More importantly, the work...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la secretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

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...

La versión oficial habla del hundimiento de la Armada Invencible, los elementos, una Reina Isabel ambiciosa, un Felipe II enamoradizo y atontado, un héroe como el pirata Drake. Del final de la hegemonía naval y militar de los españoles. En parte, cierto. En parte, falso. Pero las peores mentiras son las que tienen parte de verdad. Por tanto embuste histórico. Monumental. La realidad es que tan solo un año después del episodio, Inglaterra fracasó, igualmente, en el intento de conquistar España desembarcando un ejército colosal desde Lisboa, ¡con la expedición más grande, en...