La expedición científica de Malaspina en Nueva España, 1789-1794

Cet ouvrage est une réédition numérique d’un livre paru au XXe siècle, désormais indisponible dans son format d’origine.

Augusto / Werner Eck -- Tiberio / Greg Rowe -- Calígula / Anthony A. Barrett -- Claudio / Donna W. Hurley -- Nerón / Miriam T. Griffin -- Vespasiano / Barbara Levick -- Adriano / Mary T. Boatwright -- Marco Aurelio / Anthony R. Birley -- Septimio Severo / David Potter -- Diocleciano / Simon Corcoran -- Constantino / Noel Lenski -- Justiniano / James Allan Evans.

Las obras recientes acerca del periodo de Cardenas ya rara vez se ocupan de la comprension de los hombres y de la relacion de los hechos, por preocuparse demasiado de la definicion de ese periodo y de su ubicacion dentro de las revoluciones del siglo XX. esta es una excepcion a tan plausible practica cientifica; es un relato y no una interpretacion.

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...