Paz, reconciliación y justicia transicional en Colombia y América Latina

Edición facsimil en formato digital de la última de las tres biografías que Julián Zugazagoitia escribió sobre Pablo Iglesias. Pedro de la Iglesias Expósito era natural de Orense, en cuya Inclusa fué criado; Juana Posee, con la que casó en El Ferrol, había nacido en Santiago de Compostela. Pedro ganaba su jornal como obrero subalternno del Municipio Ferrolano: su mujer debió haber trabajado como sirviuente en alguna casa del pueblo. El matrimonio tuvo su primer hijo el 17 de octubre de 1850. Le bautizaron con el nombre de Pablo y comenzaron, sin que sepamos por qué, a llamarle...

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Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...

In this new telling of Mexico’s Second Empire and Louis Napoléon’s installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life. From 1861 to 1866, the French incorporated the armies of Austria, Belgium—including forces from Crimea to Egypt—to fight and subdue the regime of Mexico’s Benito Juárez during the time of the U.S. Civil War. France viewed this as a chance to seize Mexican territory in a moment they were convinced the...