La Geografía Universal, Ó, Descripción de Todas Las Partes del Mundo Según Un Nuevo Plan, 2: Precedida de Una Historia General de la Geografía de Todo

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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...

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A lo largo de las páginas de este libro, el autor demuestra efectivamente cómo es posible, mediante el análisis e interpretación de los contenidos de las obras que escoge de la producción cinematográfica chilena a lo largo de cerca de medio siglo, conocer algunos de los problemas cruciales de la historia de este país desde la década de los sesenta hasta nuestros días, las diferencias y antagonismos que la han atravesado y las huellas que sus conflictos han dejado en la subjetividad de los chilenos y las chilenas. De esta manera, Alcàzar ha dado vida a una espléndida historia de...