Relaciones políticas y guerra

Desde el siglo XI y durante más de cuatro siglos numerosos guerreros cristianos provenientes de muchos lugares de Europa se dirigieron a la Península Ibérica para participar en la guerra que, desde el siglo VIII, mantenían los cristianos hispanos contra los musulmanes de al-Andalus y a la que la historiografía en general ha denominado Reconquista. Muchos de ellos, después de su estancia en Hispania, proseguían su camino hacia Tierra Santa para combatir en las Cruzadas. Otros venían ex profeso para participar en una «Guerra Santa» que desde el siglo XI fue auspiciada por los papas,...

"A fascinating and beautifully argued interpretation of how the American war in Southeast Asia affected Chicano communities. The author provides the most complete and well-documented study to date of this important chapter in U.S. history and its impact on an ethnic group with long-standing traditions of military service, assimilation, and resistance to injustice. Oropeza's book is what students of the Chicano Movement, especially the Mexican American role in antiwar activities during the Vietnam War period, have been waiting for."—George Mariscal, author of Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano...

Libro que analiza los principales argumentos del desafío weberiano a la filosofía de la historia de raíz hegeliana, poniendo de relieve la importancia del autor en los debates científico-sociales del cambio de siglo.

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.

Ottavio Di Camilo already informed us in 2001 that the letter in La Celestina contained rare words. An analysis of this text and of the foreword to La Celestina gave us not only the name of Juan del Encina, but also that of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo as the author. Consequently, with this study I hope to have cleared up: 1. that the authentic name of Lucena is Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo, one of the illegitimate sons of Juan Ramírez de Lucena, 2. that Fernández de Oviedo wrote Repetición de amores and Arte de Ajedrez, 3. that Fernández de Oviedo is the author of the foreword and the...