Papers from the EAA Third Annual Meeting at Ravenna 1997: Classical and medieval

El libro reúne una cuidadosa selección de documentos, ordenanzas, cartas y todo tipo de relaciones administrativas que nos ilustran no solamente de las dotes organizativas del conquistador, sino del sutil y agudo sentido de la estrategia política que Hernán Cortés puso al servicio de la consolidación del poder y el dominio españoles en los primeros años de la Colonia.

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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 Argovia, cantón de la Suiza pre industrial de 1855, los campesinos tenían pocas posibilidades de revertir su pobreza. María Rey se entera por casualidad que la Confederación Argentina entrega tierras a aquellos agricultores europeos dispuestos a trabajarla. Meses después, ella y sus hermanos se embarcan en la gran hazaña de cruzar un océano y establecerse en Santa Fe. Las dificultades económicas de esa provincia, sumadas al conflicto latente con el Estado de Buenos Aires, impiden que se cumplan las condiciones del contrato firmado con María y los demás colonos. En tanto, en...