Subjetividades caleidoscópicas relatos y espejos trizados

Aquesta és la biografia de l’home que va aterrir la cristiandat hispànica cap a l’any mil: Muhammad ibn Abi Amir, conegut com Almansor. El llibre tracta d’explicar com es va convertir en el veritable amo d’un califat omeia l’autoritat del qual s’estenia per al-Andalus i el Magrib occidental, per què va sembrar el terror entre els cristians i per quins motius va desaparèixer tan bruscament la dinastia que havia fundat. Per fer-ho, reviu les expedicions empreses en nom de la guerra santa i els problemes que van afectar Còrdova a l'inici del segle XI. Lluny de ser una simple...

Studies in Spanish American regional history have, as yet, made little attempt to incorporate the struggles for independence within the context of provincial society and politics viewed over the broader period that spans the late colonial and early national experience of Latin America. This book attempts a new perspective: it emphasises the provincial milieu and popular participation in its varied forms, often ambiguous and contradictory. The central aim is to examine social conflicts, chiefly in the Mexican provinces of Puebla, Guadalajara, Michoacán, and Guanajuato from the middle of the...

As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...

Probablemente la idea de escribir La Comedia de Calisto y Melibea vino de Lucena (Juan del Encina)cuando estaban imprimiendo en 1495 en Salamanca su traduccion castellana de las comedias de Historia de duobus amantibus y Remedium amoris, escritas por Eneas Silvio Piccolomini Papa Pio II. Juan Ramirez de Lucena estaba en servicio de este Papa y es muy posible que Lucena estuviera en posesion de estos libros en latin y los textos originales de un manuscrito aragones hecho por Alonso de Cardona, que iban a ser las fuentes para la Comedia de Calisto y Melibea. En 1495 Francesch Vicent publico en...