Grandes Personajes de Mexico

Ensayo ilustrado de la historia cultural de mesoamérica. Se inicia con un estudio de los primeros habitantes del continente, y culmina con la descripción de la civilización azteca, de la que, naturalmente, se cuenta con muchísimos datos.

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...

Aquella “injusticia” que sintetiza el final de Simón Bolívar: “murió pobre y con camisa prestada”, es tan conocida como insospechada y oculta su faceta de empresario y defensor a ultranza de la propiedad privada. A través de la correspondencia personal del Libertador, el doctor Antonio Herrera-Vaillant devela a un hombre con extraordinarias habilidades para los negocios y tenaz protector del patrimonio familiar. El autor se apoya en documentos históricos para demostrar que Bolívar supo incrementar su fortuna y la de su familia llevando ventas y rentas estratégicas para la...

Present-day medievalists regard it as an undisputed fact that Arabic culture - especially science - influenced the Latin Middle Ages in a multitude of ways. However, more detailed research is needed into the conditions, background and context of this 'cultural exchange', a task undertaken by the present volume in 44 papers from a variety of disciplines.