Gaspar Castaño de Sosa

Las investigaciones que se han dedicado hasta ahora a la Hermandad general de concejos, restablecida por los Reyes Católicos en Castilla a partir de 1476, han puesto de relieve la importancia que la institución tuvo para los reyes, primero durante los difíciles años de la guerra sucesoria y, a partir de 1478, como instrumento de orden público. Hasta ahora se han publicado estudios destinados a explicar la evolución cronológica de la Hermandad, sus Ordenamientos y Juntas. Sin embargo, esta obra trata de mostrar, en términos cuantitativos, otro aspecto de la cuestión: la gran...

We studied the important events in the life and work of Puerto Rican scientist and politician Narciso Rabell Cabrero (1873-1928). He lived in the turmoil of the change of sovereignty from the Spain regime to the United States of America regime during the American-Hispanic War of 1898. Despite this turmoil, he made contributions in the natural history of Puerto Rico, especially in paleontology, archaeology, pharmacy, botany and politics. Rabell Cabrero was a man without boundaries. A genealogical summary is also provided.

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As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...