La ciudad de Babel

The volume is a collection of papers held at a conference devoted to the in-depth study of the history of the Roman-Iberian relationship against the backdrop of ecclesiastical and cultural structures of the Iberian Peninsula, which in many cases took on new forms in the course of the Reconquista and the consolidation of the country. The recently intensified focus on questions concerning the relationship between Rome as "center" and its European "peripheries" through research on Iberian papal documents opens up new perspectives.

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As a young man, Ramon Perez aka Tianguis interrupted his studies and elisted in a burgeoning guerrilla movement to reclaim his people to ancestral communal lands in the mountains of Oaxaca, Mexico. From the grassroots organizing conducted by the peasants to the power of regional and national politicians to enforce their social order with pistoleros -- through Tianguis' unwavering account we experience the struggle and its consequences. The pursuit of Guiero Medrano -- and of Tianguis and his friends -- is unremitting; there is no escape as they flee through the forests, small towns, and...

Carmen Bernand ofrece un panorama sint tico y actualizado de las principales civilizaciones ind genas (Mesoam rica, los Andes, la Amazonia), as como los aspectos m s originales de la formaci n de Hispanoam rica en la Colonia. un aporte interesante de esta compilaci n lo constituye la reincorporaci n de la Am rica anglosajona primigenia.