Zapata, voces y testimonios

Recuento del autor sobre los hechos y personas que impregnaron la etapa Vasconcelista que le tocó vivir. En los relatos aparecen consignados todos aquellos acontecimientos que precedieron al declive de ese capítulo de la historia contemporánea.

Con este volumen inicia la serie “Historia-teoría y método”: aproximaciones a teoría y métodos de la historia que proporcionan al estudiante instrumentos para la investigación y permiten al lector curioso entender los cauces del estudio y la razón de las preguntas que encaminan la búsqueda. Para interpretar los datos, el relato o las anécdotas, se requiere plantear cuestiones y aplicar categorías apropiadas a cada situación, porque lo que no buscamos ni presentimos puede pasar inadvertido, mientras que aquello que nos preocupa aparece en testimonios que, ante una mirada...

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...

What was once a romantic race for the skies at the turn of the century has become, now at the threshold of the new Millennium, a fierce commercial competition where no contestant can afford to lose ground. Catastrofes aereas is a journey through the most resonant and disastrous accidents in the history of commercial aviation, where the account of the events, experts' investigations, technical explanations, and the testimonies of those who lived or witnessed it are but the beginning of the story. There is also the political, economic and social context in which they occurred, and the outside...