Microhistorias de la transgresión

"Siena: City of Secrets" is a charming, intimate portrait of this most secretive of cities, often overlooked by travelers to Italy. Part cultural history and intellectual memoir, part travelogue and guide book, Tylus writes with a novelist s flair, taking the reader on a quest of discovery through the well- and not-so-well-travelled roads and alleys of the ancient city. Today, Siena can appear on the surface standoffish, a bit static, and very old-fashioned, especially when compared to its larger, flashier cousins Roma and Firenze. But first impressions wear away as we learn from Tylus that...

The Improbable Conquest offers translations of a series of little-known letters from the chaotic Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata region, uncovering a rich and understudied historical resource. These letters were written by a wide variety of individuals, including clergy, military officers, and the region’s first governor, Pedro de Mendoza. There is also an exceptional contribution from Isabel de Guevara, one of the few women involved in the conquest to have recorded her experiences. Writing about the conditions of settlements and expeditions, these individuals vividly expose the...

Informe elaborado por Stoyán Minéevich Ivanov (alias Stepánov y Moreno), agente de la Internacional Comunista o Komintern durante la Guerra Civil española, es una fuente imprescindible para el estudio del conflicto. Narra en su Informe Absolutamente Secreto los acontecimientos militares, políticos y económicos más relevantes...

"El Sudoeste Hispano" es un trabajo descriptivo que narra los acontecimientos hist�rico-pol�ticos acaecidos en las provincias de Nuevo M�jico, Tejas y Arizona desde la primera entrada en el territorio de Nu�o de Guzm�n en 1529 hasta el Tratado de Guadalupe Hidalgo en 1848. La anexi�n del Sudoeste por los Estados Unidos a mediados del Siglo XIX no fue �bice para que la influencia hispana todav�a perdure en buena parte de los territorios, especialmente en el habla, arte, gastronom�a e idiosincrasia de sus gentes.El libro incluye el an�lisis de la labor de los misioneros...