Viajes en el Mediterráneo antiguo

"A compilation of 21 presentations from the 1998 colloquium in Paris, commemorating the hundredth anniversary of the death of Ramon Emeterio Betances. Includes participation by distinguished scholars from Puerto Rico, Spain, France, Italy, the United States, Martinique and Cuba."

How did Spanish America influence the creation of an independent Brazil? In the six studies that this book contains, Joao Paulo Pimenta covers several points of contact between the Hispanic and Luso-American revolutionary processes in an attempt to show that the reciprocal parallelisms imply an erroneous separation of the two movements which are actually just one

EL 15 DE SEPTIEMBRE DE 1910, Porfirio Díaz celebró el Centenario de la Independencia sin darse cuenta del descontento que se agitaba a su alrededor. La insatisfacción en el campo por los despojos de tierras, la lucha obrera por mejores condiciones laborales, las aspiraciones de hacer de México un país democrático... todas estas movilizaciones, que despertaron la Revolución de 1910 y precipitaron en junio de 1911 el exilio en París del presidente Díaz, cerraron una importante página de nuestra historia, la del Porfiriato. Sabemos que la Revolución de 1910 alteró el orden social,...

This academic book explores the life and contributions of Pedro Sánchez de la Hoz, a sixteenth-century Spanish merchant, conquistador, and adelantado. As secretary to Pizarro during the conquest of Peru, Sánchez de la Hoz wrote a firsthand account of the Spanish conquest of Peru and Incan ethnography, which is presented here, and includes some of the most significant campaigns in the colonization of the Americas, which was led by conquistador Francisco Pizarro, his brothers, and indigenous allies. This conquest paved the way for the establishment of the Viceroyalty of Peru and spin-off...