Toledo y Bizancio

Este ensayo nos traslada al África Subsahariana, en un principio con un hecho de la etapa colonial americana prácticamente desconocido donde Buenos Aires, por entonces capital del Virreinato del Río de la Plata, debía administrar e incorporar bajo su jurisdicción esos territorios del continente africano. La expedición hispánica que partió en 1778 desde el puerto de Montevideo hacia el Golfo de Guinea, por diversas causas que se mencionan en el libro fracasará para posteriormente retomarla en otras condiciones y con mayor éxito a mediados del siglo XIX, donde finalmente los...

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Seventy years after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, disillusioned soldiers horrified by the actual conditions in which they found themselves, who deserted from either side of the conflict, and who were later tracked down and punished by Franco's government, share their eyewitness accounts of events and their motives for deserting.

This is a survey of the voyages of English navigators, from the pioneers of the late 15th century to the scientific expeditions of the early 19th century, not only in South American waters, but also the Caribbean and North America.