Crimen de Estado / State Crime

Title: Relacion documentada del origen y progresos del trastorno de las provincias de Venezuela, etc. Publisher: British Library, Historical Print Editions The British Library is the national library of the United Kingdom. It is one of the world's largest research libraries holding over 150 million items in all known languages and formats: books, journals, newspapers, sound recordings, patents, maps, stamps, prints and much more. Its collections include around 14 million books, along with substantial additional collections of manuscripts and historical items dating back as far as 300 BC. The...

El relato de viajes encendi durante siglos la imaginaci n europea y llev consigo la fe de un proyecto expansionista presentado como apasionante misi n ecum nica. He aqu una aguda lectura de relatos de muy diversa ndole que presentan una rica variedad de miradas colonizadoras: escritos del siglo XVIII sobre frica del Sur, la literatura de viajes sentimental, la temprana exploraci n del frica Occidental, la invenci n de Am rica del Sur durante la independencia y, de forma m s reciente, la di spora desde las antiguas colonias latinoamericanas hacia las metr polis en busca de una vida mejor.

The Spanish conquest of Mexico was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. This campaign was initiated by conquistador, Hernan Corts, who invaded Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in 1521. This is the story of this conquest and the obssesion of Hernan Cortez in this war.

Orientaciones trasnpacificas is a wide-ranging study that presents a cross-temporal examination of the discernible orientation toward East and South Asia that pervades the work of well-known intellectual and artistic Mexican figures. It goes from the later years of the regime of Porfirio Diaz in the 1900s to the cultural imaginaries of nationalism in the 1920s, and from the Cold War to the global spread of neoliberalism at the turn of the new century. Understanding Orientalism as a form of situated and historical orientation grounded in Mexico's own (post)colonial formation, the book argues...