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xviii, 646 pages, 16 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations (some color), maps, genealogical tables ; 25 cm
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English
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A narrative chronicle of Spain's dominant years traces Latin America's exploration, conquest, and economic development between 1522 and 1556, offering insight into how period accomplishments remain influential in today's world.
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399 pages : illustrations (some color) ; 27 cm
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English
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In his introduction to this passionate history of Spain and the Spanish-speaking peoples of the Americas, Carlos Fuentes asks the necessary question: What do we really have to celebrate on the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's historic voyage to the New World? After all, the quincentennial of the "discovery of America" finds the Latin American republics in a state of deep crisis, with inflation, unemployment, and excessive foreign debt threatening...
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English
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Lamenting not having more time to get to know each of the nineteen countries he visits after winning the prestigious Premio Alfaguara, Andrés Neuman begins to suspect that world travel consists mostly of "not seeing." But then he realizes that the fleeting nature of his trip provides him with a unique opportunity: touring and comparing every country of Latin America in a single stroke. Neuman writes on the move, generating a kinetic work that is...
6) Ñamérica
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674 pages : 1 map ; 23 cm.
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Español
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"The definite chronicle of an endless territory: Spanish America. There is a region in the world where twenty nations and over 400 million people share a language, a history, a culture, worries, and hopes. We know it poorly. Above all, we know its myths, its reflections, its common places. We think of it as in a different time. This region is called or could be called Ñamerica, and this book wants to tell it and understand it as it is today. Martín...
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439 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
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Español
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Solo existen dos civilizaciones en el mundo occidental: la hispanica y la anglosajona. El encuentro de Espana con las gentes y tierras de America fue un acontecimiento que transformo las bases geograficas, revoluciono la alimentacion, indujo cambios demograficos sustanciales, y genero un nuevo espacio cultural que se extiende sobre mas de quinientos millones de personas. Los logros mas conocidos de esta Civilizacion Hispanica son el mestizaje y la...
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