Veneficus el embaucador

Panorama completo de la historia guatemalteca a partir de la Conquista española y, sobre todo, de la Independencia, en 1821, hasta la actualidad. Si bien se hace hincapié en los procesos políticos, no se descuida lo social, lo económico y lo cultural.

Solo existen dos civilizaciones en el mundo occidental: la hispanica y la anglosajona. El encuentro de Espana con las gentes y tierras de America fue un acontecimiento que transformo las bases geograficas, revoluciono la alimentacion, indujo cambios demograficos sustanciales y genero un nuevo espacio cultural que se extiende sobre mas de quinientos millones de personas. Los logros mas conocidos de esta Civilizacion Hispanica son el mestizaje y la extension de la lengua espanola y el cristianismo. Tambien el intercambio de nuevos productos y alimentos entre ambas orillas del Atlantico, que mas ...

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A monumentally informed and irresistibly opinionated guide to the most un-Spanish city in Spain, from the bestselling author of The Fatal Shore. In these pages, Robert Hughes scrolls through Barcelona's often violent history; tells the stories of its kings, poets, magnates, and revolutionaries; and ushers readers through municipal landmarks that range from Antoni Gaudi's sublimely surreal cathedral to a postmodern restaurant with a glass-walled urinal. The result is a work filled with the attributes of Barcelona itself: proportion, humor, and seny—the Catalan word for triumphant common...