Peter Parley's Universal History, on the Basis of Geography

Resulta cuanto menos paradójico que nuestra sociedad actual esté configurada por una creciente diversidad cultural y, al mismo tiempo, se pretenda establecer de manera contundente la necesidad de un pensamiento único como fundamento básico para la convivencia pacífica y armoniosa de todos los que forman parte de la misma. Para lograr este objetivo, el control de la educación es la piedra angular que ansían quienes pretenden sojuzgar y dominar el mayor número de asuntos de la vida de los ciudadanos, preferencia propia de todo sistema totalitario. Por otra parte, una amalgama de...

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...

Más allá de las reflexiones sobre fechas y nombres relacionados con eventos fundacionales hispánicos en la región bajosinuana de la colonial provincia de Cartagena, se quiere brindar a la investigación educativa elementos teóricos críticos que contribuyan al fortalecimiento de un marco interpretativo que permita ligar la superación de vacíos académicos y tradicionalismos que la memoria colectiva mantiene contra toda evidencia documental, con nuevas perspectivas investigativas que vienen construyéndose sobre la historia del Caribe colombiano. El cuerpo de este escrito está...

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