Cerro Gordo

The riveting story of Ferdinand Magellan’s historic 60,000-mile ocean voyage—now updated with a new introduction commemorating the 500th anniversary of his journey. “Prodigious research, sure-footed prose and vivid descriptions make for a thoroughly satisfying account... it is all here in the wondrous detail, a first-rate historical page turner.”— New York Times Book Review Ferdinand Magellan's daring circumnavigation of the globe in the sixteenth century was a three-year odyssey filled with sex, violence, and amazing adventure. Now in Over the Edge of the World, prize-winning...

This academic book explores the life and contributions of Pedro Sánchez de la Hoz, a sixteenth-century Spanish merchant, conquistador, and adelantado. As secretary to Pizarro during the conquest of Peru, Sánchez de la Hoz wrote a firsthand account of the Spanish conquest of Peru and Incan ethnography, which is presented here, and includes some of the most significant campaigns in the colonization of the Americas, which was led by conquistador Francisco Pizarro, his brothers, and indigenous allies. This conquest paved the way for the establishment of the Viceroyalty of Peru and spin-off...

Con estos dos textos, los autores buscan dar algunas pistas a los lectores hispanoamericanos para entender la serie de procesos que llevaron al derrumbe del Muro de Berlín y de la Cortina de Hierro, que según sus defensores iba a dividir todo el Viejo Continente por cien años más. La construcción del Muro el 13 de agosto de 1961 simbolizó el intento de mantener en el marco de la Guerra Fría el nuevo orden mundial creado después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial; su significado nefasto para la población alemana llevó finalmente a su caída el 9 de noviembre de 1989 y a la reunificación...

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