Libro Segundo de la Crónica Miscelánea, En Que Se Trata de la Conquista Espiritual Y Temporal de la Santa Provincia de Xalisco: En El Nuevo Reino de l

La larga trayectoria historiográfica del profesor Paul Preston le acredita como el más relevante continuador de la fecunda tradición del hispanismo británico. El presente volumen quiere constituir un homenaje que completa el que se le rindiera con su nombramiento como doctor honoris causa de nuestra Universidad. En los textos aquí seleccionados se articula un enfoque coherente y, a la vez, complejo de la contemporaneidad española en su profunda imbricación con la historia del siglo XX europeo. Analizando dinámicas políticas y estructurales tanto como las vivencias y experiencias de...

n the last decades—and especially since the 1990s—there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century in Southern Cone culture. Popular nineteenth-century figures (indios, gauchos, letrados, and cautivas) have reentered the national literary scene in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Nineteenth-century heroes such as San Martín and Artigas are again the main protagonists of Southern Cone theater, film, and literature. Canonical nineteenth-century texts (La cautiva, Martín Fierro, Facundo) are being rewritten one more time in different artistic fields. Foundational...

This book deals with the evangelization of Spanish-speaking America between the European conquest and independence. The study investigates the concepts and strategies of catechesis, the general conditions of Church law and national politics as well as the prerequisites and conditions on the part of the Indians. New and specific forms of mutual understanding, of mediation and resistance developed through the transfer of European knowledge to a second geographical area and through the contact of cultures and religions. These new forms evolved beyond the sphere of religion and determine cultural ...

A bestselling historian recounts the epic clash that ended the Renaissance and pushed Islam to the gates of Vienna In Warriors of God and Dogs of God, James Reston, Jr., brought two epochal events in the struggle between Islam and Christendom to readers eager to understand the roots of the present-day conflict. With his unwavering eye for detail, Reston now weaves a captivating narrative that examines a pivotal period in that centuries- long war, which found Europe at its most vulnerable and Islam on the attack. This saga of colliding worlds is propelled by two astonishing young...