Oriente Frente a Occidente

La revuelta de las Comunidades de Castilla (1520-1521) es uno de los grandes problemas de la España Moderna. Numerosos historiadores se han ocupado de su dimensión política, institucional y social. A su vez, ha sido un elemento destacado en la memoria histórica de los últimos siglos, generando diversas conmemoraciones, obras artísticas e identificaciones políticas. El presente libro se centra en los aspectos religiosos y culturales de la revuelta contra Carlos V, perspectiva generalmente ausente en las aproximaciones. Para ello, se realiza un recorrido por la demonización de los...

Although few people know its history, Philadelphia is the third-largest Puerto Rican community in the United States. Thousands have made el viaje, or the journey, from Puerto Rico to Philadelphia, beginning before 1898 and continuing today. Puerto Ricans came as political exiles, merchants, and workers and built vibrant everyday lives and community organizations. By the 1970s, the Puerto Rican community was strong and diverse. El Viaje is a photographic journey of Puerto Ricans in Philadelphia, and it refers to a popular local radio program.

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The need to protect the physical and cultural environment in which we operate is the logical consequence of the dramatic transformations witnessed in recent years due to rapid urban development. This book seeks new ways to understand the natural and historic patrimony, increasing the evidences that we use to define our cultural heritage. The importance of this has been increasing in recent years leading to the creation of legal categories by the "European Landscape Convention". In Toledo, as a result of a peculiar historical evolution that has prevented the existence of large urban change...