Un conde nórdico en el Caribe: La presencia de Federico Tomás Adlercreutz en Colombia, Jamaica y Venezuela, 1820-1849

Baltazar Brito Guadarrama interpreta los diferentes glifos de El Códice Boturini o Tira de la peregrinación y su importancia en el éxodo que los mexicas emprendieron desde Aztlán. El códice se extiende temporalmente desde la salida de una tierra mítica con características lacustres, propiciada por orden del dios Huitzilopochtli, hasta la llegada de los mexicas al Valle de México, su sometimiento al altépetl de Culhuacán y su victoria sobre los xochimilcas. Además de la descripción y aclaración de los glifos del códice, el autor ofrece y contrasta la información de diversas...

Recoge; La economía; El marco monetario durante el conflicto; La utilización de la moneda como arma de guerra; El negocio bancario.

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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...