Enigmas de México

A partir de 1692, la endermedad de la roya diezma los cutivos de trigo sobre la socta del Perú. La demanda peruana en cereales, cubierta en pocos años por Chile, impulsa el tráfico marítimo y el comercio del trigo entre Valparaíso y El Callao. Este es el telón de fondo de la apasionante historia de una compañia comercial establecida en Lima y en Santiago de Chile de 1710 a 1730 cuyas huellas contables e intercambios epistolares - hecho raro en la América española de inicios del siglo XVII - han sido conservados por los archivos. Las cartas entre los socios, entre el maestre del...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

En los últimos años se ha creado una imagen idílica, pero un tanto de cartón piedra, de la República. El caso de Azaña es particularmente revelador. Sometido a una especie de beatificación laica, que difícilmente le hubiera agradado, la publicación de sus diarios en México provocó un embarazoso silencio, porque derrumbaban una cierta mitología republicana. No obstante, los viejos tópicos han revivido a fuerza de silenciar testimonios o de someterlos a malabarismos interpretativos. Este libro, al basarse en gran medida en el contraste de los testimonios de los dirigentes...