The Byzantine Empire (Revised Edition)

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El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior, is the earliest Euro-American trade route of cultures and commerce in the United States. It spanned about 1,800 miles from Mexico City, where the road originated, to Santa Fe, in New Mexico. For three centuries, this Spanish colonial road followed a network of ancient Native American footpaths and trails that followed the wide expanse of the Rio Grande valley. There were parajes, or campgrounds, along the way for travelers, and early Spanish settlements were established too. Some of the towns and villages are now modern cities, ...

La mirada de l'autor se centra a estudiar el procés mitjançant el qual els revolucionaris cubans van conferir sentit a la seua acció col·lectiva. Una construcció que transita del descontentament amb la dictadura de Fulgencio Batista, a exhibir una manera pròpia de ser, incorporant els seus propis símbols, rituals i cerimònies en el Moviment Revolucionari 26 de Juliol. Un procés que porta a ascendir al seu líder, Fidel Castro, al lloc sagrat dels pares fundadors de la nació cubana. S'estudia, així, l'entramat polític i cultural que va arribar a reinventar la raó del conflicte: de ...

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