Los hermanos Alexander y Wilhelm von Humboldt en Colombia

Los zapotecas vivieron, prosperaron y se convirtieron en una civilización de interés para los conquistadores. Siendo una de las civilizaciones más grandes de su tiempo en Mesoamérica, ayudaron a construir y darle forma al mundo con el que se encontraron los conquistadores a su llegada.

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Text written in the seventeenth century, translated and edited by Philip Ainsworth Means, with an Introduction by the late Sir Clements R. Markham. The translation is from the Spanish edition of Marcos Jiménez de la Espada, published Madrid, 1882. Also includes 'Eight chronological tables ... compiled by P. A. Means'; 'List of words in the names of kings and Incas ...' and 'Quichua words in Montesinos'. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1920.

Stéphane Hessel, cuyo alegato contra la indiferencia ha contribuido a desperezar las conciencias de miles y miles de indignados, proclama ahora la necesidad de comprometerse, desde la exigencia ética individual y con rechazo explícito a toda violencia. A través de una vibrante conversación con Gilles Vanderpooten, desde los casi setenta años que los separan, Hessel propone medios a los jóvenes para la acción contra las injusticias, los abusos del poder del dinero y el atropello de los derechos humanos, y apela, por encima de todo, a evitar la tentación del derrotismo. «Resistir...