Empresas coloniales

Las primeras noticias que conocemos de los bandoleros surgen en el siglo XVI. Estos aparecieron en aquellas zonas que presentaban unas características muy concretas para que pudieran moverse en libertad y sin ser hostigados por las fuerzas del orden, es decir, las montañas, el escenario perfecto para el pillaje y el robo. Existe mucha literatura sobre ellos, de hecho los escritores románticos franceses e ingleses mitificaron a muchos bandoleros en sus obras. Y autores españoles como Lope de Vega y Cervantes contribuyeron también al mito. Gracias a ellos han entrado en el imaginario...

We Spaniards are the people that have done the most in the history of humanity, even shaping the world we inhabit. But also the people most ashamed of their triumphs, their achievements, their victories and their discoveries. The authors dismantle the most controversial elements of the Black Legend, both the traditional one - the Inquisition, the expulsion of the Jews, the conquest of America, the scientific and cultural backwardness, slavery - and the one renewed by the work of the nazionalisms.

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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...