Patria o medios

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Revolución y contrarrevolución en México y el Perú es un estudio acucioso acerca de la transición de virreinatos a Estados soberanos de los dos grandes centros-ejes del dominio español colonial. El periodo estudiado (de 1800 a 1824) muestra el efecto del constitucionalismo español y de los movimientos revolucionarios hispanoamericanos en los gobiernos realistas, representantes del poder peninsular.

Jacques Lafaye destaca el hecho de que la pasión predominante de los príncipes del Renacimiento fue el costoso y mortífero juego de la guerra. Inspirándose notablemente en la obra maestra de Francisco López de Gómara, Historia de las guerras de mar de nuestros tiempos (1500-1559), Lafaye enfatiza dos aspectos del Renacimiento: la exaltación de la cultura antigua y la explosión de la técnica moderna.

n the last decades—and especially since the 1990s—there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century in Southern Cone culture. Popular nineteenth-century figures (indios, gauchos, letrados, and cautivas) have reentered the national literary scene in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Nineteenth-century heroes such as San Martín and Artigas are again the main protagonists of Southern Cone theater, film, and literature. Canonical nineteenth-century texts (La cautiva, Martín Fierro, Facundo) are being rewritten one more time in different artistic fields. Foundational...