Historia De La Isla De Cuba: Con Notas E Ilustraciones;

Pedro José Guiteras sacó a la luz hechos olvidados, que sus antecesores creyeron infecundos o sobradamente significativos; llevó los estudios históricos de Cuba más allá de la simple crónica externa de acontecimientos a menudo intrascendentes, o como ahora podría decirse con Spengler, ahistóricos o faltos de historicidad, y por primera vez en la historiografía cubana se enlazó íntimamente el desarrollo de nuestro pueblo con el resto de la vida mundial. Fernando Ortiz

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...

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Esta obra constituye una verdadera revelación de una figura menospreciada durante doscientos años por la historiografía española, la de la tercera esposa de Fernando VII, María Josefa Amalia de Sajonia. En esta aparente «novela epistolar», la joven reina se nos muestra muy alejada de la imagen de beata reaccionaria, sumisa e insignificante con la que, de manera interesada, suele ser etiquetada, para ofrecernos aspectos íntimos de su vida familiar y política en el período de 1821-1822. La primera reina constitucional se nos aparece como una verdadera intelectual, culta y refinada...

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