Álgebra política y otros textos de Nueva York

[Italiano]: Il libro è il primo risultato di un progetto di ricerca interdisciplinare e internazionale sui disastri di origine naturale verificatisi nei territori governati dalle monarchie borboniche tra il XVIII secolo e l’inizio del XIX. I dodici saggi che lo compongono esplorano le strategie e le pratiche attraverso cui istituzioni e società cercarono di gestire, mitigare e prevenire gli effetti catastrofici di eruzioni, terremoti, inondazioni, carestie ed epidemie, in territori geograficamente lontani e diversi tra loro – dal Mediterraneo occidentale all’America centrale e...

La palabra tolerancia ha tenido y sigue teniendo mala prensa en nuestro país. Más que una virtud ha sido valorada tradicionalmente como flaqueza. Históricamente, ha primado en España el discurso de la intolerancia, ligado casi siempre al de la Inquisición. Y, desde luego, desde más allá de nuestras fronteras se ha juzgado permanentemente a los españoles como presuntos sujetos agentes y pacientes de una historia de intolerancia y represión. En este libro se demuestra que el término tolerancia es polisémico. Al lado del clásico sentido de libertad de conciencia, en el concepto...

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...

Catherine Julien's new translation of Titu Cusi Yupanqui's Relasçion de como los Españoles Entraron en el Peru--an account of the Spanish conquest of Peru by the last indigenous ruler of the Inca empire--features student-oriented annotation, facing-page Spanish, and an Introduction that sets this remarkably rich source in its cultural, historical, and literary contexts.