El Prado y el Buen Retiro

Un recorrido por la historia del distrito madrileño de Salamanca a través de los tiempos, contada con anécdotas, planos, grabados, fotografías y dibujos.

Una obra amena y bien documentada que arroja nueva luz sobre los masones, la sociedad más poderosa de la tierra. En esta interesante y esclarecedora historia de la masonería, Jasper Ridley se remonta a la Edad Media y a las corporaciones de los constructores de catedrales, quienes, celosos de guardar el secreto de la edificación de tales monumentos, se reunían en logias donde los maestros albañiles (en francés maçons) discutían sus métodos de trabajo. Ridley evoca la formación de la Gran Logia londinense, cuando la llamada «masonería especulativa» redacta el reglamento de la...

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Examine new trends in the writing of new history—and what they mean to information science! History has been devalued, causing a lack of career prospects for historians, a decrease in vocations to the history profession, and historical discontinuity between generations. History Under Debate: International Reflection on the Discipline is a recap of the crucial Second International Historia a Debate conference, held on July 17, 1999 in Santiago de Compostela. This book details the comparative critical perspectives on history, historians, their audiences, and the coming trends that will...

At the juncture of an Excan Tlahltoloyan invasion to Cholula, Quetzalcoatl and Tezcatlipoca engage in a violent war when disputing the love of goddess Victoria on the gladiatorial stone, who is manifested as the emissary and harbinger of the fifth sun destruction. Amid rituals and sacrifices, flowery warfare, and tzompantli, love blossoms and dies. The story is complemented by a chilling account of the Battle of Zacatecas and the Jerez fair, where Mexican traditions are illustrated and glorified.