Las guerras de Cuba

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...

A comienzos del siglo XX, la Argentina atravesaba un proceso acelerado de modernización y democratización, de la mano del primer gobierno surgido de la voluntad popular y el ímpetu idealista de la reforma universitaria. ¿Qué lugar encontraron en ese marco los intelectuales? ¿Pudieron satisfacer sus ambiciones de participar con peso propio en el cambio político en curso y de hacerse oír como portavoces de una verdad futura? ¿Cómo se posicionaron frente a los movimientos y las ideologías que impactarían en el Río de la Plata, como el fascismo, los totalitarismos o el...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...