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El presente estudio, al analizar las Cortes de Castilla en el inicio de la época moderna, concibe a la asamblea representativa castellana no sólo como una construcción de Derecho, sino básicamente en tanto proyección de realidades políticas y sociales. Tal perspectiva metodológica ha permitido comprobar las verdaderas funciones desarrolladas por las Cortes ante una monarquía radicalizada en su papel histórico, y que vio en ellas tan sólo un cauce e instrumento de sus apetencias más inmediatas, especialmente en el terreno fiscal. Como realidad social, quizá sean las Cortes una de...

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La admiracion, franca o encubierta, que produce Benito Juarez se debe muy especialmente a que supo ser el sagaz guia de una irrepetible generacion de mexicanos, la nacida a raiz del comienzo del movimiento de Independencia que logro restaurar la Republica. Roeder logra en Juarez y su Mexico uno de los mejores estudios con que se cuenta sobre el hombre y la epoca juarista.

This edition of Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca's Relación offers readers Rolena Adorno and Patrick Charles Pautz's celebrated translation of Cabeza de Vaca's account of the 1527 Pánfilo de Narváez expedition to North America. The dramatic narrative tells the story of some of the first Europeans and the first-known African to encounter the North American wilderness and its Native inhabitants. It is a fascinating tale of survival against the highest odds, and it highlights Native Americans and their interactions with the newcomers in a manner seldom seen in writings of the period. In this...