Toward a Contemporary City

La Relación del Japón, de Rodrigo de Vivero, gobernador y Capitán General de las Filipinas, narra los sucesos que vivió en 1609 tras naufragar en un viaje rumbo a Nueva España. Rodrigo desembarcó cerca de un pueblo llamado Yubanda no muy lejos de la capital. Fue tomado prisionero pero a los pocos días se le reconoció como el gobernador de Filipinas, se le dio un trato privilegiado y se solicitó su presencia en las cortes del Shogun Tokugawa Hidetada, en Edo, y Ogosho Tokugawa Ieyasu, en Zurunda. Al llegar ante el Ogosho, Rodrigo de Vivero hizo varias peticiones a favor de las...

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...

Serge Gruzinski nos ofrece un logrado trabajo de inmersión en algunas de las más relevantes expresiones del sincretismo cultural, con el propósito de trazar la naturaleza de este complejo imaginario vivo en la memoria cultural de nuestro pasado indígena.

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