Viajes al Río de la Plata y a Potosí (1657-1660)

Resumen del Libro

There is very scarce information on the author of this peculiar book, that many scholars consider initiated the British appetite for the Spanish colonies in South America. Accarette -as he calls himself- or Accarette du Biscay -as appears in the English translation of his story- seems to have been a French-Basque adventurer who traveled twice to South America between 1657 and 1660 under the false identity of a Spanish subject, as the Spanish regime would not allow non-subjects to disembark in its colonies. His most evident purpose -a fact Accarette does not hide- was the lucrative smuggling business, and his urge to make another trip prompted him to write a report to no one else but the French king Louis XIV. The variety and detail of this adventurous businessman -mixture of spy and filibuster- observations on everyday colonial life and customs in Buenos Aires, Cordoba, Salta, Jujuy, the mules road, the hide civilization and the Potosi mines, is a highly valuable testimony for the River Plate, Tucuman and Potosi XVII Century history study, more so considering the scarcity of documentation on those places at that time. Frustrated corsair, or ill-fated governor of hipothetical French possessions on the River Plate, the political circumstaces hampered Accarette's chances to enter the official story. In any case, if the report was discarded by the French, it did not face the same fate in England, where a translation was first published in 1698, and again in 1716. The Accarette report -so full of strategic and tactical details- makes the reader wonder what would have happened if Louis XIV had not been so tied up with the episodes in the Low Countries that led to the Franco-Dutch War (1672-1678), and up to which point the British Admiralty had not evoked these writings when planning the invasion to Buenos Aires almost 140 years later. This edition, by Sorbonne professor and researcher Jean-Paul Duviols, is a highly accurate translation into Spanish from the original French version, unlike all previous ones that were based on either the first or second English edition.

Más detalles de libro

Cantidad de páginas 105

Autor:

Accarette Du Biscay
Jean-paul Duviols

Categoría:

Biografía

Formatos Disponibles:

MOBI, EPUB, PDF

Descargar Ebook

Opciones de Descarga

Valoración

Popular

5.0

93 Valoraciones Totales

Más libros de Biografía

Garcia Moreno

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...

Casi una Mujer / Almost a Woman

En su nueva memoria, la clamada autora de Cuando era puertorriqueña continua su cautivante crónica describiendo su salida de los barrios de Brooklyn a los teatros de Manhattan. “Negi”, como cariñosamente la llama su familia, deja Macún, un campo de Puerto Rico, en 1961 para vivir en un apartamento de tres habitaciones en un proyecto de viviendas, con siete hermanas y hermanos pequeños, una abuela preguntona, y una mama estricta que no la dejaba salir con muchachos. A los trece años, Negi añora su propia cama, privacidad, y una vida con su padre, quien permanece en Puerto Rico con...

Tres días en Orán

UN DELICADO Y NOSTÁLGICO EJERCICIO DE MEMORIA SOBRE LA FAMILIA, LA IDENTIDAD Y LA HISTORIA. «Siempre supe que un día tendría que ir a Argelia. Soy hija, nieta y bisnieta de Pies Negros. De niña, estaba orgullosa de ello, luego me avergoncé. Durante mucho tiempo me encontré entre esas dos orillas. Y la compleja y dolorosa relación que tenía con mis raíces dirigía mi vida a pesar de mí misma, dictaba mis elecciones. Cuando mi abuela murió, pensé que ese día había llegado. El 15 de septiembre de 2005 tomé un vuelo con mi padre hacia Orán. No sabía qué íbamos a encontrar...

Fumar en la bañera

Fumar en una bañera no tendría nada particularmente interesante salvo si lo hacemos con alguien más, y justo eso es lo que ocurre en este libro: dos amigas se dan un baño juntas, se relajan y se fuman un cigarro mientras se expresan sus confidencias ante la perplejidad y la reconstrucción emocional a las que se ven abocadas tras salir ambas de una larga relación. Un libro que nos habla de ese tipo de complicidad que solo es posible entre dos mujeres que se encuentran en el mismo punto de partida, regalándose una a la otra su compañía, su desahogo, sus risas, su libertad...

Libros Recomendados 2026