L'Amérique du Sud

Completo y riguroso panorama de las previsiones que, hechas por expertos en distintos campos, afectan al futuro más inmediato de nuestro planeta, desde la ecología y la demografía a la nanotecnología y la exploración espacial.

This study is a highly innovative body of research on the supply of raw material in prehistoric Iberia. The archaeological assemblages from recently excavated sites in north-eastern Spain are clearly presented, as are the various methods for the characterisation of flints and the determination of geological origins. The study is important in terms of the new data provided on raw material supply at the end of the Upper Palaeolithic in Iberia and a reconstruction of mobility patterns and resource exploitation of hunter-gatherer groups during the Pleistocene/Holocene transition. In Spanish.

Somos conscientes en estas páginas de que la historiografía centroamericana todavía tiene problemas con la historia política. No hablemos el que representan los mitos. Esa historia política edificante, que ha supeditado la verdad a la ejemplaridad, con el objeto de imponer un tipo de conducta social. Pero, el estudio de la historia centroamericana tiene, además, grandes lagunas. Hasta ahora en la región ha prevalecido una interpretación que se centra en un criterio de con-tinuum político: independencia -república - reforma liberal - democracia, y que tiene como particularidad...

El Escorial is more than a monument to the zeal of Spain’s Catholicism; it is also a symbol of Spain at its imperial apogee. This imposing, granite edifice was built by King Philip II to celebrate Spain’s victory over the French at Saint-Quentin on August 10, 1557. Paid for with New-World gold, this sprawling monastery-palace is laid out in a vast grid of corridors and courtyards. At its heart is the austere Doric basilica of San Lorenzo el Real - beneath which are the remains of eleven Spanish kings, including Philip. The story of this fascinating, enduring symbol of Spain’s monarchy...