El hundimiento de la Monarquía Hispánica

Unique among textbooks, Sobre Las Culturas Y Civilizaciones Latinoamericanas not only describes the history of Latin America, it sets a mood that allows the reader to get real sense of the languages, cultures, and civilizations that comprise this complex and colorful land. It provides an account of how Columbus's voyages gave rise to utopian dreams, the ramifications of which led to a brilliant display of hybrid cultures, changed the ethnic composition of two continents, accelerated lines of commerce, and refashioned the Western World's diet. After discussing the topographical features and...

Las mujeres han sido las grandes olvidadas de la lucha contra el franquismo. Siempre se las relegó, incluso por sus propios compañeros de viaje, a un lugar secundario. Su responsabilidad y su compromiso político eran, cuando no ignorados, al menos considerados como subsidiarios. No se tuvo en cuenta su militancia expresa, su lucha valiente y arriesgada en la retaguardia, imprescindible para sostener la más visible vanguardia masculina, y tampoco el alto precio que pagaron por ello. Hoy sabemos que hubo, además de mujeres en el frente, mujeres en la lucha clandestina, en la guerrilla, a...

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Fernand Braudel (1912-1985), was a leading French historian and author of, among other books, the groundbreaking The Mediterranean and the Mediterranean World in the Age of Philip II (1949). One of the founders of the Annales School in France, Braudel insisted on treating the Mediterranean region as a whole, irrespective of religious and national divides. Braudel's new historiography rejected political history as the dominant discipline and espoused a 'total history' or a 'history from below' that would tell the story of the vast majority of humanity hitherto excluded from the grand...