Vida prodigiosa de la venerable virgen Juana de Jesus de la Tercera Orden de Penitencia de Nuestro Seraphico Padre San Francisco.

This epic history compares the empires built by Spain and Britain in the Americas, from Columbus’s arrival in the New World to the end of Spanish colonial rule in the early nineteenth century. J. H. Elliott, one of the most distinguished and versatile historians working today, offers us history on a grand scale, contrasting the worlds built by Britain and by Spain on the ruins of the civilizations they encountered and destroyed in North and South America. Elliott identifies and explains both the similarities and differences in the two empires’ processes of colonization, the character of...

Este libro propone una revisión de la historia de Occidente. Su objetivo es rastrear las improntas del pasado que son todavía reconocibles en nuestro presente y descifrar las huellas todavía perceptibles de los lugares esenciales, los personajes célebres, los eventos trascendentales y las tendencias intelectuales que Occidente reconoce como propias; lo que hoy llamaríamos su ADN. Se trata de un recorrido por algunas ricas metrópolis de la Antigüedad como Jerusalén, Atenas, Roma, Antioquía, Alejandría y Constantinopla; la prodigiosa expansión del cristianismo; la dolorosa escisión...

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Probablemente el m rito principal de este curioso estudio de Lawrence Stone es que plantea una nueva forma de estudiar la historia, no ya considerando solamente las grandes transformaciones sociales y pol ticas en sus aspectos m s vastos y generales, sino poniendo atenci n en la vida cotidiana.