La Edad del Bronce Egea

La conquista de América provocó una catástrofe demográfica de las poblaciones indígenas de enorme gravedad y trascendencia. Tras las atribuciones de la historia (y la propaganda) tradicional europea a la “crueldad” y “rapiña” de los conquistadores españoles, estudios más objetivos apuntaron a la responsabilidad en el proceso de las patologías exportadas al Nuevo Mundo por los europeos. Sin embargo, ninguna de las dos explicaciones daba cuenta, satisfactoriamente, del enorme quebranto y declive poblacional de los indios de América. Como que para indagar las causas y los...

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...

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Salvador Larrua-Guedes (Camaguey, Cuba, 1942) went to grade school and high school in Catholic schools in Cuba. He received degrees in journalism and mathematics, as well as a doctorate in Economics. He is a registered investigator at the Archivo General de Indias in Spain. Ex-professor at the University of Havana and the Cuban Seminar (San Carlos), he is the author of 42 history books. Monsignor Roman was a holy man, totally given to virtue, as we can observe reading the events in his life, witnessed by the thousands of people who knew and revered him. It is for this reason that this...