Aldea 1936

El Barroco literario europeo: Poesía barroca española, la prosa en el barroco español, Lope de Vega, teatro español del siglo de oro, la literatura 'seiscentista' italiana, la literatura portuguesa en el Barroco, el Barroco literario en Inglaterra, el sig

El bandolerismo morisco en la Valencia de la segunda mitad del Quinientos contribuyó a forjar la idea de la imposible asimilación de los cristianos nuevos de moros y su consideración como una recurrente amenaza para la paz pública y la integridad del reino. De acuerdo con la interpretación predominante, sus acciones cobran sentido si se insertan en el contexto de la lucha entre Cristiandad e Islam. Sin embargo, el estudio al detalle de las cuadrillas, revela aspectos hasta ahora desconocidos que se dan de bruces con la imagen del bandido morisco como guerrero de la fe o vengador de la...

This book is a landmark in Mexican rural history. Activists and professional historians have long argued that the nineteenth-century privatization of indigenous communal lands was the original sin that laid the ground for the agrarian strife of the twentieth century. Many also claimed that this privatization drove the political mobilizations of indigenous peasants even before the Revolution. Nevertheless, very few historians have actually studied the process through which indigenous lands were privatized, and their findings have been published mostly as tantalizing but sketchy articles. In...

n the last decades—and especially since the 1990s—there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century in Southern Cone culture. Popular nineteenth-century figures (indios, gauchos, letrados, and cautivas) have reentered the national literary scene in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Nineteenth-century heroes such as San Martín and Artigas are again the main protagonists of Southern Cone theater, film, and literature. Canonical nineteenth-century texts (La cautiva, Martín Fierro, Facundo) are being rewritten one more time in different artistic fields. Foundational...