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Enviado por el Museo de Historia Natural de París, a la edad de 23 años, el joven naturalista francés Alcide d'Orbigny recorrió durante ocho años la América meridonal (Brasil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Perú y Bolivia) y a su regreso a Francia compuso una monumental obra publicada entre 1835 y 1847 con el título de Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale en nueve , tomos y 11 volúmenes con más de 5 mil páginas y 500 ilustraciones. A pedido del presidente boliviano José Ballivián, en 1845 se editó un fragmento de la obra de d'Orbigny y no fue sino hasta un siglo después...

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This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

En la ciudad de Mexico, el 8 de junio de 1692 comenzo con los festejos de la celebracion del Corpus Christi y termino entre fuertes tensiones y miedos. Al final del dia, el centro urbano de la capital del gran virreinato novohispano acabo en llamas y saqueado. Sus 23 mil habitantes indios fueron senalados como los culpables de esta barbarie. El motin mexicano de 1692 sirve como texto cultural para una nueva aproximacion a la dinamica de la vida politica de la segunda mitad del siglo XVII. Esta investigacion es una minuciosa reconstruccion historica del motin acompanada de un detallado estudio ...