Contra el imperio

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires’ processes of colonization, the character of...

Pensar que el narcotr�fico en nuestro pa�s es algo reciente y exclusivamente nuestro es un error fatal de perspectiva. Lo cierto es que se trata de un fen�meno hist�rico complejo, creado durante los �ltimos cien a�os, en conjunto por M�xico y Estados Unidos. Este libro fue escrito originalmente para el lector estadounidense, con la intenci�n de confrontar la convicci�n generalizada de que los horrores de la �ltima d�cada son un producto mexicano y, por lo tanto, un problema que M�xico debe solucionar. Creer esto alienta posturas como la de Donald Trump, quien sugiere...

Este libro, ya considerado un clásico en su género, analiza los problemas referidos a la vida intelectual en el Río de la Plata durante el período colonial.

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