Pedro de Cieza de León y la Crónica de Indias

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En Apoteosis de don Pedro Calderón de la Barca, José Zorrilla hace una apología a la hispanidad y al orgullo herido de un imperio que dio sus últimos estertores en el siglo XIX. El texto resulta interesante, incluso desde su idea épica de una estructura nacional, y merece un análisis más centrado en lo político que en la noción de "divertimento literario" con que fue concebido originalmente. Cabe concluir comentando que aquí la figura de Calderón de la Barca es presentada como un estandarte nacional, una reivindicación de ese orgullo imperial antes referido.

Atlas ilustrado de la primera guerra mundial La Primera Guerra Mundial, primer acontecimiento histórico documentado por la fotografía, supuso el comienzo de un siglo trágico que dejó tras de sí una terrible estela de muerte y deva

As a community-based organization in the mountains of south-central Puerto Rico, Casa Pueblo implements alternatives to extractive capitalism that do not rely on governments or distant non-profits. In this book, Alexis Massol González, Casa Pueblo's founder, reflects on its extraordinary forty-year history of experiments with community self-governance. Massol-González received the prestigious Goldman Prize (popularly known as the Green Nobel) for the organization's initiatives to protect the environment, affirm cultural and human values, and create sustainable economic alternatives. This...