Afrotopía

En este libro se ha evitado la tentación de convertir la historia contemporánea de América en un mosaico inconexo de pequeñas historias nacionales de cada país, y se han abordado, por el contrario, y de forma innovadora, los grandes problemas históricos continentales desde finales del siglo XVIII hasta la actualidad más estricta.

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La reciente entrega al gobierno haitiano de una moderna universidad donada por el gobierno dominicano ha vuelto a poner sobre el tapete el complicado tema de las relaciones entre ambas naciones. Parece ser una constante histrica del devenir de nuestros pueblos, unidos por lazos de toda ndole, y derivados de compartir un mismo escenario geogrfico, que cada cierto tiempo estallen crisis que desatan pasiones encontradas en ambas partes de la isla. Estos desencuentros peridicos que oscurecen momentneamente nuestra natural comunicacin y convivencia, hacen difcil que podamos discernir y orientarnos ...

These papers are centered on the Crown of Aragon in the later Middle Ages, its achievements (the more remarkable given the very evident problems with which it was beset), and especially on its role in the Mediterranean. Hence the emphasis on Majorca, its leading intellectual figure, Ramon Lull (1232-1316), and his influence, and related to these the article on Thomas Aquinas. Other studies deal with the relations of Christians and Jews in Majorca, down to the Expulsion from Spain. In these papers Professor Hillgarth seeks to investigate the transmission of learning and how what is transmitted ...