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Este libro viene a cubrir un vacio en la historia del cautiverio en la America hispanica. Para recuperar las voces de aquellos cautivos (blancos, mestizos, mulatos, criollos y otros) capturados por indios en algun lugar del vasto continente y que convivieron durante ciertos periodos con sus captrores, Fernando Opere, director del Programa de Estudios Latinoamericano de la Universidad de Virginia, ha trabajado un amplio y rico material que incluye relatos de los mismos cautivos; sus historias presentes en los textos de cronicas, y otros documentos, para terminar con un brillante ensayo sobre...

Durante la Guerra de Secesión de Estados Unidos, más de seiscientos mil soldados perdieron la vida, una carnicería sin precedentes que, en términos actuales, equivaldría a seis millones de personas. La escalofriante escala de mortandad y la devastación fue tal que no solo afectó a la existencia de centenares de miles de individuos, sino que tuvo un impacto profundísimo en la vida y la psique colectiva de la nación. En el monumental y multipremiado Esta República del sufrimiento. Morir y matar en una guerra civil , Drew Gilpin Faust, experta en la Guerra de Secesión y primera...

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...