La aventura de los conquistadores : Colón, Núñez de Balboa, Cortés, Orellana y otros valientes descubridores

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Los agentes del sistema colonial que llegaron al territorio de la gobernación del Chocó durante el siglo xviii y comienzos del xix con el objetivo de integrar cabalmente al imperio español aquellas "selvas impenetrables" y sus "naciones salvajes", venían determinados por una matriz de representación de la realidad que se fue ajustando y enriqueciendo a medida que adquirían conocimiento de ese recóndito lugar. El Chocó, sus gentes y paisajes presenta la evolución de esas representaciones, tanto en lo relativo a la realidad natural de la zona chocoana (los mares, los montes, las...

An Economist Best Book of the Year “Sweeping . . . an ambitious synthesis . . . [Evans] writes with admirable narrative power and possesses a wonderful eye for local color . . . Fascinating.”—Stephen Schuker, The Wall Street Journal From the bestselling author of The Third Reich at War, a masterly account of Europe in the age of its global hegemony; the latest volume in the Penguin History of Europe series Richard J. Evans, bestselling historian of Nazi Germany, returns with a monumental new addition to the acclaimed Penguin History of Europe series, covering the period from the fall of ...

Reseña de la producción historiográfica en torno al Segundo Imperio mexicano, este libro recoge las distintas formas en que se ha abordado la aventura imperial en momentos particulares y desde perspectivas varias.