Los Guaran’es

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But other emperors, such as Tiberius, Caligula, and Nero, infamously used their power to indulge vice and harm others. Ever since their publication, Suetonius' imperial biographies have appealed to readers, both because of their sensational stories and the larger questions of power they raise. They spawned many sequels in antiquity (as well as more recent works like Robert Graves's famed, I, Claudius). While a number of good English translations are in print, reading Lives of the Caesar from cover to cover can be daunting, so many details are included. Also general readers, including...

Esta obra estudia las razones fundamentales que provocaron el fracaso del proyecto misional franciscano en los poblados guarayos dado que en el momento de la secularización (1938-1939), los Guarayo habitantes de Ascensión, Nuestra Señora de los Ángeles de Urubichá, San Francisco de Yotaú, Santa Cruz de Yaguarú y San Pablo, no sólo permanecían al margen de la bolivianidad, sino que como consecuencia de la desaparición de la «tutela» ejercida hasta entonces por los misioneros, vieron cómo, progresivamente, parte de sus territorios pasaban a terceros - Estado y particulares - y,...

De los toltecas ancestrales hasta los aztecas, la mayoría de los historiadores dejaban casi en blanco cinco largos siglos (del VIII al XIII) que poco a poco empiezan a ser ocupados por la hegemonía de Culhuacán, sitio al pie del Cerro de la Estrella, en el valle de México. Las excavaciones realizadas por la autora en aquel lugar entre 1958 y 1962 llenan ese hiato e iluminan el papel central de la cultura culhua. Más de cien páginas de ilustraciones justifican el texto fundamental de Laurette Séjourné.