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This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a fascinating tale of survival against the highest odds, and it highlights Native Americans and their interactions with the newcomers in a manner seldom seen in writings of the period. In this...

Desde el primer Borbón hasta el actual príncipe de Asturias, este fascinante libro es una invitación a recorrer las pequeñas y grandes tragedias que han azotado a esta dinastía. Enfermedad, locura, voracidad sexual, endogamia... son sólo algunos de los estigmas que jalonan la crónica de los Borbones, repleta de contratiempos, escándalos y extrañas muertes. Desde la psicopatía de Felipe V hasta la ninfomanía de Isabel II; desde la calamidad de los infantes y reyes llamados Alfonso hasta los trece - ¡trece!- Borbones que murieron en la Guerra Civil; desde el fatídico accidente que...

Carrera: Revoluci?n Chilena Y Campa?as De La Independencia, Con Un Ap?ndice Sobre La Jenealoj?a De La Familia Del Jeneral.

Traces the history of the Jews in Spain until the expulsion in 1492 in regard to relations between the Crown, the Church, and the populace regarding the Jews and Conversos. Discusses, also, the fate of the Conversos during the 16th century. Focuses on Castile, with special attention to the city of Ávila. Asserts that anti-Jewish hostility in Spain, already from the time of the Visigoths, was not based on racism, but rather on negative religious stereotypes rooted in the minds of the populace and of the lower clergy, as well as on socioeconomic factors, such as the rise of Jews to dominant...