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From Al-Andalus to the Americas (13th-17th Centuries). Destruction and Construcion of Societies offers a multi-perspective view of the filiation of colonial and settler colonial experiences, from the Medieval Iberian Peninsula to the early modern Americas.

Este volumen estudia y transcribe un total de 440 textos, de los cuales 370 son documentales y el resto manuscritos, con la intención de ofrecer al investigador un riguroso estudio sobre la evolución de los sistemas de caligrafia desde el siglo IX hasta el XVIII, lo que nos aproxima a la sociedad (tanto publica como privada) que aparece reflejada en los mismos.

Nearly every aspect of daily life in the Mediterranean world and Europe during the florescence of the Greek and Roman cultures is relevant to the topics of engineering and technology. This volume highlights both the accomplishments of the ancient societies and the remaining research problems, and stimulates further progress in the history of ancient technology. The subject matter of the book is the technological framework of the Greek and Roman cultures from ca. 800 B.C. through ca. A.D. 500 in the circum-Mediterranean world and Northern Europe. Each chapter discusses a technology or family of technologies from an analytical rather than descriptive point of view, providing a critical summation of our present knowledge of the Greek and Roman accomplishments in the technology concerned and the evolution of their technical capabilities over the chronological period. Each presentation reviews the issues and recent contributions, and defines the capacities and accomplishments of the technology in the context of the society that used it, the available "technological shelf," and the resources consumed. These studies introduce and synthesize the results of excavation or specialized studies. The chapters are organized in sections progressing from sources (written and representational) to primary (e.g., mining, metallurgy, agriculture) and secondary (e.g., woodworking, glass production, food preparation, textile production and leather-working) production, to technologies of social organization and interaction (e.g., roads, bridges, ships, harbors, warfare and fortification), and finally to studies of general social issues (e.g., writing, timekeeping, measurement, scientific instruments, attitudes toward technology and innovation) and the relevance of ethnographic methods to the study of classical technology. The unrivalled breadth and depth of this volume make it the definitive reference work for students and academics across the spectrum of classical studies.

Diario de un genio revela todo lo que uno desea saber de la intimidad de Salvador Dalí. En este diario, que cubre los años 1952-1964, el artista desvela día a día sus hallazgos creativos y sus pensam

Si esto es un hombre, libro que inaugura la trilogía que Primo Levi dedicó a los campos de exterminio nazis, surgió en la imaginación de su autor durante los días de horror en Auschwitz, cuando la p

Yo soy el Diego Diego Armando Maradona Desde los orígenes pobres hasta la mayor gloria, pasando por cada una de sus muertes y sus respectivas resurrecciones, por las definiciones sobre sus amigos y sus enemigos, todo esta relatado aqui por el, en primera persona, un Maradona integro y tambien intimo. Es este Maradona que confiesa y que define sin reservas: Al Diego, a mi, me sacaron de Villa Fiorito y me revolearon de una patada en el culo a Paris, a la torre Eiffel. Yo tenia puesto el pantalon de siempre, el unico, el que usaba en el invierno y en el verano, ese de corderoy. Alli cai y me pidieron, me exigieron, que dijera lo que tenia que decir, que actuara como tenia que actuar, que hiciera lo que ellos quisieran. Y yo hice. Yo... hice lo que pude, creo que tan mal no me fue?.

Unlike empresses in Germany and queens in England and France, the lives and political careers of most Iberian queens remain largely unknown to non-specialists. In this collection, Theresa Earenfight brings together new research on medieval and early modern Spanish queens that highlights the distinctive political culture that resulted in forms of queenship similar to, yet also substantially different from, that of northern Europe. The essays consider three aspects of queenship and politics: the institutional foundations and practice of politics, the politics of religion and religious devotion, and the literary and artistic representations of queenship and power. Late medieval queens, because they often occupied prominent and powerful offices such as the regency in Castile and Portugal and the Lieutenancy in the Crown of Aragon, exemplify a unique form of queenship that can best be described as a political partnership. Habsburg queens and empresses, often excluded from such official political roles, were less publicly visible but their power as partner to the king, although shrouded, remains potent. Their political careers were the result of two forces: first, military circumstances brought about by territorial expansion, conquest, and second, a political culture that did not explicitly prohibit queens from active participation in the governance of the realm. The essays in this collection-by both newer and well established scholars-demonstrate the range and depth of current research on Iberian queenship, and prompt a re-examination of long-held assumptions about women and the exercise of power in pre-modern Spain.