Relaciones y visitas a los Andes. Siglo XVI

How did Spanish America influence the creation of an independent Brazil? In the six studies that this book contains, Joao Paulo Pimenta covers several points of contact between the Hispanic and Luso-American revolutionary processes in an attempt to show that the reciprocal parallelisms imply an erroneous separation of the two movements which are actually just one

The true operatic tragedy of Maximilian and Carlota, the European aristocrats who stumbled into power in Mexico—and faced bloody consequences. In the 1860s, Napoleon III, intent on curbing the rise of American imperialism, persuaded a young Austrian archduke and a Belgian princess to leave Europe and become the emperor and empress of Mexico. They and their entourage arrived in a Mexico ruled by terror, where revolutionary fervor was barely suppressed by French troops. When the United States, now clear of its own Civil War, aided the rebels in pushing back Maximilian’s imperial soldiers,...

Augusto / Werner Eck -- Tiberio / Greg Rowe -- Calígula / Anthony A. Barrett -- Claudio / Donna W. Hurley -- Nerón / Miriam T. Griffin -- Vespasiano / Barbara Levick -- Adriano / Mary T. Boatwright -- Marco Aurelio / Anthony R. Birley -- Septimio Severo / David Potter -- Diocleciano / Simon Corcoran -- Constantino / Noel Lenski -- Justiniano / James Allan Evans.

En esta obra el poeta resume de manera conmovedora los pálpitos de esa Guatemala convulsa dispuesta a abrirle las puertas a la Revolución, y nos muestra el desencanto de una población que no pudo nutrirse plenamente de las bondades revolucionarias. El ensayo, escrito en el exilio, ofrece una evocación de la tierra nativa y una visión de la trayectoria histórica y de los conflictos esenciales de Guatemala.