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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

Uno de los grandes riesgos de las síntesis históricas es que al darle forma a los procesos de cambio que modifican de raíz una sociedad en un lapso de tiempo se pierden de vista las pequeñas historias de los grupos sociales participantes en los grandes movimientos. Evitar esto es uno de los grandes aciertos del libro de Hamnett, quien hace una crítica de la historia del movimiento independentista mexicano con base en la problemática de cada región del país.

La decadencia cubana contiene los ensayos de Fernando Ortiz La crisis política cubana; sus causas y remedios y La decadencia cubana, escritos en 1919 y 1924. En ellos el autor reflexiona sobre el periodo de la historia cubana conocido como el de las "Vacas gordas", en que el aumento del comercio y la subida de los precios del azúcar auguraban una Cuba próspera y optimista. Ortiz es incisivo en extremo y meticuloso en el análisis y ordenación de estadísticas que demuestran la fragilidad de los cimientos de la prosperidad cubana, y la inevitable crisis de la década de los años veinte....

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