La España contemporánea

En estas memorias se combina un rigor ensayístico en el análisis del contradictorio proceso histórico de la República Democrática Alemana (RDA), con una amenidad singular que surge de significativas anécdotas de la vida del autor como estudiante de literatura alemana y dramaturgia en Leipzig, y como practicante en el Berliner Ensemble, el mundialmente famoso teatro fundado por Bertolr Breche. En la primera parte se analizan graves contradicciones entre los intereses de la ex URSS y la RDA. No obstante, las vivencias del autor y las relaciones sexuales, amorosas y amistosas que vivía la ...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la secretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

The Improbable Conquest offers translations of a series of little-known letters from the chaotic Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata region, uncovering a rich and understudied historical resource. These letters were written by a wide variety of individuals, including clergy, military officers, and the region’s first governor, Pedro de Mendoza. There is also an exceptional contribution from Isabel de Guevara, one of the few women involved in the conquest to have recorded her experiences. Writing about the conditions of settlements and expeditions, these individuals vividly expose the...

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, ...