Camino al progreso

Hardcover edition comprising the books "Crónicas de Pichilemu" ("Chronicles of Pichilemu") and "Camino al progreso" ("On the road to progress").

Konrad Ratz se propone acabar con las elucubraciones sobre la pareja imperial y con lo que el llama "la leyenda negra." El presente trabajo documenta una relacion de la cual poco se sabe y mucho se especula. Las cartas no solo se refieren a los asuntos de gobierno, sino tambien a vivencias cotidianas.

The abolition of judicial torture—alongside the eradication of both slavery and capital punishment—was one of the most consequential issues debated in eighteenth-century continental Europe. A revealing component of this controversial debate was presented in the unpublished "Discurso sobre la injusticia del apremio judicial," written by the attorney Pedro Garcia del Canuelo. Seeking support for its publication, he forwarded the manuscript to Prime Minister Manuel Godoy in 1795. The savvy Spanish politician, however, not only rejected the text but also warned its author against further...

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La urdimbre y trama de este libro se teje con los acontecimientos de la Conquista y la Colonia en los Reinos de Indias: el choque violento de dos mundos, la instauración del dominio de los europeos, la evangelización, la aculturación por mestizaje de cacicazgos y razas. Simultá-neamente se cumplieron la extracción de las riquezas minerales y su traslado a España, operaciones en extremo complejas, de sorprendente plenitud en vivencias individuales y sociales, episodios centrales de esta saga. La avidez por el oro y la plata determinó la conducta de individuos, parroquias y reinos y los...