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Title: Archivo mexicano. Documentos para la historia de Mexico. (Sumario de la residencia tomada á D. Fernando Cortes, gobernador y capitan general de la N. E. y á otros gobernadores y officiales de la misma. Paleografiado del original por el Lic. Ignacio Lopez Rayon.). 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...

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...

John Lynch nos ofrece en este libro una rica y amplia panorámica de la España del siglo XVIII, y de su imperio americano, considerada en todas sus dimensiones -la política, la economía, las transformaciones sociales, la cultura- y que algunos críticos han señalado ya como la mejor visión de conjunto de esta época que se haya publicado hasta hoy. Lo cual no debe hacernos pensar que nos encontramos ante el típico manual destinado únicamente al estudio y la cunsulta. Por el contrario, este es un libro escrito pensando en el lector común, un libro que el profesor Charles C. Noel ha...