Breve historia de Carlos V

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

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La Corona española, a partir del siglo XV, emprendió el descubrimiento de nuevos mares y tierra firme, en un mundo desconocido, que trajo consigo una globalización cultural y comercial que cambió el mundo, y de la que los españoles no nos consideramos lo suficientemente orgullosos. Para el descubrimiento, conquista y población de las indias Occidentales y Orientales fue imprescindible que los españoles, fueran soldados, marineros, o simplemente viajeros ocasionales, navegaran por todos los mares del orbe soportando multitud de tormentos, peligros, y enfermedades, que se tratan de poner ...

En una poca en que presenciamos el cuestionamiento, la aparici n y la reelaboraci n sistem tica de categor as identitarias que hasta ahora se supon an definitivas e inmutables, Solange Alberro expone una audaz propuesta Para el proceso mexicano en donde el papel de la religi n resulta no s lo importante, sino vital e imprescindible. la autora aborda las vicisitudes del surgimiento de una identidad espec ficamente criolla, en donde el factor religioso brindaba grandes posibilidades de discusi n y difusi n de opiniones e ideas.