Diplomacia hispano-inglesa en el siglo XVII

Todavía hoy cuando han pasado más de cuatrocientos años de la efeméride, resulta difícil acercarse a aquellos sucesos sin verse condicionado por ciertas imágenes y estereotipos que ha dejado el conocido “encuentro”. Los ecos de la Armada siguen muy presentes en el inconsciente colectivo y se imponen sobre la propia realidad de los hechos, aunque conozcamos muchos más detalles sobre los barcos, las tropas, las estrategias y las tácticas de los distintos intervinientes en el conflicto. La “Jornada de Inglaterra”, la “Empresa”, la “Gran Armada” o la “Felicísima...

The history of Patagonia is a dramatic account of exploration, endurance, su_ering and survival, full of extraordinary characters and amazing natural settings. Covering three centuries since the Renaissance, the stories grip the imagination and invite you to explore this great virgin territory. Venice _ourished through the silk and spice routes maintaining a trade monopoly. An amazing discovery made history in 1520, the Strait of Magellan in Patagonia opened the new Southern route to the Indies and the circumnavigation around the world. The trade hegemony over the Indies was fractured, thus...

Excerpt from Cristobal Colon y Su Detractor el Marques de Dos Fuentes (Don Fernando Anton del Olmet) About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however,...

In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

En este libro se analizan los desequilibrios que generó un modelo político no garantista que diferenciaba entre ciudadanos y anticiudadanos.