La Puebla del Río

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The Spanish conquest of Mexico was one of the most important campaigns in the Spanish colonization of the Americas. This campaign was initiated by conquistador, Hernan Corts, who invaded Mexico in 1519 and conquered the Aztec capital of Tenochtitlan in 1521. This is the story of this conquest and the obssesion of Hernan Cortez in this war.

As a veteran Israeli guide I realised that there was no concise history book for the amateur historian wanting to understand the complex history of this small piece of land nestled between Egypt and the Fertile Crescent so I wrote and published this book in 1996. An updated edition was published in 2000 and the third edition in 2010. My greatest joy is when people who are not history buffs tell me they enjoyed the book and learnt from it.

Las memorias colectivas están de plena actualidad, hasta el punto de que la llamada «memoria histórica» ha sido objeto de una reciente y conflictiva ley. También han atraído en los últimos años la atención de historiadores y otros científicos sociales, conscientes de que constituyen un factor de peso en la génesis y evolución de las diversas identidades (políticas, nacionales, religiosas, de clase, de género) y, por lo tanto, en las dinámicas sociopolíticas. En este libro se recogen las ponencias presentadas al VII Congreso de la Asociación de Historia Contemporánea,...