Porfirio Díaz

Profiles nine important figures in the history of México including the Emperor Montezuma, Hernán Cortés, Benito Juárez, and Cuauhtemoc, the last Aztec ruler of Tenochtitlán.

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Tracing musicology in Latin American during the twentieth century, this book presents case studies to illustrate how Latin American music has interacted with social and global processes. It addresses popular music, postcolonialism, women in music, tradition and modernity, musical counterculture, globalization, and identity construction.

Esta obra recorre los acontecimientos políticos que marcaron el final del califato de Córdoba y, a partir de aquí, analiza cómo se manifestaron los cambios de poder y de lealtades en las acuñaciones de moneda de las taifas. Una de las mayores aportaciones de esta obra es el estudio de las monedas anónimas y de difícil atribución, que se tratan detalladamente, identificando las cecas de ciudades como Almería, Badajoz o Valencia. Las conclusiones que se derivan del análisis numismático es que, de una manera u otra, los diferentes reyes buscaron la forma de emitir moneda sin...