El redescrubrimiento del pasado prehispánico de Colombia

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El gran protagonista del alzamiento de 1820 fue el teniente coronel Rafael del Riego. Nacido en una familia asturiana, noble pero de escasos recursos económicos, Riego tuvo una buena formación, a diferencia de otros compañeros de generación. Realizó estudios secundarios y en 1807 ingresó en un regimiento prestigioso, la Compañía Americana de Guardias de la Real Persona. Al año siguiente, la sacudida de la guerra de la Independencia lo alcanzó de pleno. Capturado por los franceses ya en abril de 1808, consiguió escapar de su prisión en El Escorial y marchó a Asturias para sumarse...

This volume contains 15 contributions to the study of myth and the imaginary in South America, of which only 2 have been published before.

Between 1793 and 1853 Columbia underwent a transition from being the Spanish viceroyalty New Granada to the Gran Columbia of liberator president Simón Bolívar, and on to become one of the most liberal republics in the contemporary world. The Constitutional Documents of Colombia and Panama 1793-1853 presents the first declaration of human rights in Spanish from the year 1793, along with the first constitutional charter of Ibero-America (that of the Free State of Socorro from 1810), as well as the previously little-known early constitutions of the Antioquia Republic from 1811. The volume...