Plata, comercio y guerra

Text written in the seventeenth century, translated and edited by Philip Ainsworth Means, with an Introduction by the late Sir Clements R. Markham. The translation is from the Spanish edition of Marcos Jiménez de la Espada, published Madrid, 1882. Also includes 'Eight chronological tables ... compiled by P. A. Means'; 'List of words in the names of kings and Incas ...' and 'Quichua words in Montesinos'. This is a new print-on-demand hardback edition of the volume first published in 1920.

Las especiales circunstancias de naturaleza política que vive España constituyen una magnífica ocasión para reflexionar sobre la pluralidad que en materia jurídica ha caracterizado al conjunto de reinos y estados peninsulares durante un milenio. Esta obra repasa todos y cada uno de los textos legislativos extensos de los verdaderos reinos y estados peninsulares del pasado, que el autor no duda en denominar como constituciones.

The nineteenth century was a golden age for those people known variously as sodomites, Uranians, monosexuals, and homosexuals. Long before Stonewall and Gay Pride, there was such a thing as gay culture, and it was recognized throughout Europe and America.

The history of Patagonia is a dramatic account of exploration, endurance, su_ering and survival, full of extraordinary characters and amazing natural settings. Covering three centuries since the Renaissance, the stories grip the imagination and invite you to explore this great virgin territory. Venice _ourished through the silk and spice routes maintaining a trade monopoly. An amazing discovery made history in 1520, the Strait of Magellan in Patagonia opened the new Southern route to the Indies and the circumnavigation around the world. The trade hegemony over the Indies was fractured, thus...