El modo de ser aristocrático

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This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

"This annotated bibliography of 332 Mexican autobiographies breaks new ground in the field of Latin American bibliography, for up to now, no study has existed of autobiography in this part of the world. . . . This volume could serve as a model for future bibliographies of autobiographies in other Hispanic countries such as Spain itself, Argentina, Chile, etc. . . . This volume belongs in any library interested in Mexico and its culture. Woods and his translator Josefina Crus-Melendez should be congratulated for a job well done." ARBA

A través de entrevistas con protagonistas de todas las facciones envueltas y de investigar en archivos importantes, el historiador Enrique Ros, entrega su décimo libro sobre Cuba. En éste documenta los últimos momentos de la dictadura de Gerardo Machado, su derrocamiento en 1933 y los sucesos posteriores hasta la Constitución de 1940. De esta forma presenta el estudio más objetivo sobre estos momentos cruciales de la historia de Cuba. Con índice onomástico y fotografías de la época. Prólogo de Marcos A. Ramos.