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En este volumen se ofrece por primera vez la traducción al español de un texto del viajero austriaco del siglo XIX Isidore Löwenstern. Este volumen constituye un excelente retrato de la vida y costumbres del México de la época, así como de los lugares y situaciones de mayor importancia para el viajero. Es, además, una aproximación privilegiada, desde la perspectiva de un explorador de filiación monárquica y colonialista, al pensamiento que el hombre del viejo mundo guardaba sobre su contraparte extranjera.

Las fiestas de toros, desde su origen, han sido un espectáculo polémico que ha despertado grandes pasiones a favor y en contra. Papas, teólogos, monarcas y ministros intentaron prohibir las fiestas de toros en diversas ocasiones y por distintos motivos: desde las razones de orden moral y humanista alegadas en las bulas pontificias del siglo XVI, los argumentos utilitaristas, económicos y laborales planteados en la España de la Ilustración, hasta las denuncias sociales, políticas y animalistas de las últimas centurias. El objetivo de este trabajo es mostrar los principales hitos...

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...

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...