Cazando hienas

Desde 1520, Patagonia alimentó fantasías europeas con imágenes de gigantes que poblaban un territorio maldito. Ni el imperio español, ni Argentina ni Chile consiguieron, hasta fines del siglo XIX, penetrar las estepas. Basado en una extensa investigación en archivos regionales, nacionales e internacionales, este libro analiza transnacionalmente los procesos que hicieron posible la ocupación argentina y chilena del extremo sur americano. Aunque fundamental para los imaginarios nacionalistas de cada Estado, los esfuerzos de colonización austral resultaron en sucesivos fracasos. Todo se...

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En una epoca extremedamente convulsa (s. IV-V), Julia sufre la perdida de su familia excepto su hermano. En su busqueda huye de su Cartagena natal e inicia un accidentado periplo que le lleva a recuperar los restos de Prisciliano, convertirse en preceptora imperial, espia al servicio de Eutropio, amiga de la Elia Eudoxia e Hypatia, curandera, empresaria y consejera de la corte en Constantinopla, Alejandria, Roma, Ravena y Barcelona, vive los importantes cambios que, a caballo de dos siglos, sacuden el imperio en el umbral de su definitiva desmembracion. Descendiente de una saga 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...