8 de agosto de 1828

Nunca ha sido tan necesario extender los horizontes del quehacer historiografico a la entidad de dimensiones planetarias a la que estuvieron adscritos los virreinatos ibericos de America. Es decir, a la "Monarquia espanola" o "catolica," terminos con que se designo en su momento al imperio espanol. La tarea es tan necesaria como inmensa y ambiciosa. Este ensayo quiere contribuir a ese fin al proponer una seleccion bibliografica de la cual es esta obra el primer volumen. No se trata de una mera "bibliografia," sino de un instrumento de investigacion que intenta sensibilizar al investigador a...

How did Spanish America influence the creation of an independent Brazil? In the six studies that this book contains, Joao Paulo Pimenta covers several points of contact between the Hispanic and Luso-American revolutionary processes in an attempt to show that the reciprocal parallelisms imply an erroneous separation of the two movements which are actually just one

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The book When we were Arabs is a declaration of principles. The complexity of our history requires postmodern approaches to recognize the liquid borders of realities such as Europe and Islam, especially if it is written from a European land where there was a time when we were Arabs.