La Guerra de Sucesión española

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This classic study presents the history of the Byzantine Empire from the sixth to the fifteenth century in terms of political events, art, literature, and thought. It is addressed to the general reader of history as well as to students and scholars.

Este es el volumen II del trabajo de investigación que un equipo de historiadores de la Universidad de Chile realizó sobre el centro de tortura Villa Grimaldi. En este, el foco de estudio no estuvo centrado en el modus operandi de ese centro represivo, sino en la vida, rebelión, tortura y exilio de los que, habiendo estado prisioneros allí, sobrevivieron, pudiendo conservar y reunir en su memoria el registro de todas sus experiencias, tanto de las que vivieron allí como de las que los llevaron hasta allí, y de las que configuraron lo que son hoy.

Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.