El peso del pesimismo

This book deals with the evangelization of Spanish-speaking America between the European conquest and independence. The study investigates the concepts and strategies of catechesis, the general conditions of Church law and national politics as well as the prerequisites and conditions on the part of the Indians. New and specific forms of mutual understanding, of mediation and resistance developed through the transfer of European knowledge to a second geographical area and through the contact of cultures and religions. These new forms evolved beyond the sphere of religion and determine cultural ...

El Camino Real de Tierra Adentro, the Royal Road of the Interior, is the earliest Euro-American trade route of cultures and commerce in the United States. It spanned about 1,800 miles from Mexico City, where the road originated, to Santa Fe, in New Mexico. For three centuries, this Spanish colonial road followed a network of ancient Native American footpaths and trails that followed the wide expanse of the Rio Grande valley. There were parajes, or campgrounds, along the way for travelers, and early Spanish settlements were established too. Some of the towns and villages are now modern cities, ...

An account, including stunning photographs, of the search by some of the women of the town of Calama, Chile, for the remains of their loved ones who were murdered and "disappeared" by the Pinochet regime.

Ante los conflictos y los horrores desatados por el hombre, se ha venido dando por sentada en los últimos decenios la certidumbre de que «el juicio de la historia» acaba viniendo a restituir tarde o temprano, siquiera moralmente, el justo orden de las cosas. Sin embargo, el resurgimiento en los últimos tiempos de fenómenos como los supremacismos, el hipernacionalismo, el racismo y las actualizaciones posmodernas del fascismo llevan a plantearse seriamente la validez de este aserto. Tomando tres casos paradigmáticos -el Tribunal Militar Internacional de Nuremberg de 1946, la Comisión...