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LOS CORSARIOS BERBERISCOS de Lane-Poole es un libro clásico y el primero de importancia dedicado a historiar el apasionante y dramático asunto de la piratería berberisca, que durante más de tres siglos condicionó por entero la vida del Mediterráneo occidental y que alcanzó también a buena parte del Atlántico, llegando incluso hasta el Canal de la Mancha o la lejanísima Islandia. Nuestra edición reproduce los muy notables y hermosos dibujos de la edición original inglesa. STANLEY LANE-POOLE (Londres, 1854-1931) fue un historiador y arqueólogo británico que dedicó casi toda su...

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Título: “¿Primer? Inventario de los objetos del Museo Politécnico (Hoy Museo Histórico Provincial Marqués de Sobre Monte)“. Autor: Federico G. Bordese. Editor: Revista del Archivo Fotográfico de Córdoba. Año: setiembre de 2011. (Este trabajo de investigación fue realizado por un pedido personal de la Encargada del museo Graciela Rausch. El motivo era la falta de un primer inventario que nunca, hasta ese momento, se pudo conseguir).

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...