Responsabilidades y resistencias

Este libro hace un ameno repaso a todos los acontecimientos que marcaron los cincos siglos de historia de la presencia de España en África, el reino olvidado. Durante la Edad Media el enemigo de los reinos cristianos peninsulares fue el invasor musulmán. El impulso guerrero fue perseguir al enemigo más allá del mar con la finalidad de conjurar nuevas invasiones. Isabel la Católica, en su testamento, reflejó el deseo de la corona de combatir al infiel en el norte africano, tomar posesión de esas tierras en previsión de nuevas incursiones musulmanas, combatir la piratería y controlar...

A riveting, comprehensive history of the Arab people and tribes that explores the role of language as a cultural touchstone. This kaleidoscopic book covers almost 3,000 years of Arab history and shines a light on the footloose Arab people and tribes who conquered lands and disseminated their language and culture over vast distances. Tracing this process to the origins of the Arabic language, rather than the advent of Islam, Tim Mackintosh-Smith begins his narrative more than a thousand years before Muhammad and focuses on how Arabic, both spoken and written, has functioned as a vital source...

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...

Artes, ciencias y letras en la America colonial es una obra colectiva, abierta e incompleta, al igual que la tarea de conformacion de una autentica comunidad cultural latinoamericana. Los presentes volumenes, que recogen investigaciones presentadas en el simposio homonimo celebrado en Buenos Aires en 2005, recrean de un modo variopinto -que es tambien elocuente sobre la diversidad de enfoques disciplinarios posibles- la evolucion de la cultura colonial latinoamericana y constituyen una importante herramienta para comprender las causas tanto de algunos aspectos erraticos del presente regional...