Sudáfrica

Esta antología recaba testimonios en torno al descubrimiento cultural de los pueblos del Nuevo Mundo. Las fuentes, que van de 1492 al siglo XVIII y del estrecho de Magallanes a la isla de Nutka, incluyen a Colón, Vespuccio, Díaz del Castillo, Motolinía, el Inca Garcilaso y Moziño, quienes, junto a otros frailes, juristas, soldados y marineros, dan su testimonio directo de lo americano: el paisaje, los aborígenes, las mujeres, los dioses, las vestiduras, las virtudes, los vicios. Esta nueva edición, de la original de 1963, incluye prólogo de Pablo Escalante, bibliografía actualizada y ...

Selecci n de textos escritos por V ctor Ra l Haya de la Torre, uno de los ide logos m s importantes del Per y fundador del partido pol tico APRA a principios del siglo XX. Nieto Montesinos lleva a cabo una minuciosa cr tica de los ejes rectores de las pol ticas marxistas, liberales y conservadoras de Haya de la Torre, y analiza las caracter sticas fundamentales de Per con el prop sito de configurar un proyecto pol tico independiente de los preceptos importados de Europa.

High in the Inyo Mountains, between Owens Valley and Death Valley National Park, lies the ghost town of Cerro Gordo. Discovered in 1865, this silver town boomed to a population of 3,000 people in the hands of savvy entrepreneurs during the 1870s. As the silver played out and the town faded, a few hung on to the dream. By the early 1900s, Louis D. Gordon wandered up the Yellow Grade Road where freight wagons once traversed with silver and supplies and took a closer look at the zinc ore that had been tossed aside by early miners. The Fat Hill lived again, primarily as a small company town. By...

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...