Repertorio de la desesperación

Gracias a los componentes del llamado «Grupo de Oviedo», la Universidad ovetense vivió los momentos estelares de su historia. Según esta recopilación en dos tomos del profesor Santos Coronas, ese grupo se desenvuelve en una época, la de las décadas finales del siglo XIX y comienzos del XX, en la que la coincidencia de un grupo de profesores y hombres excepcionales contribuyó decisivamente a desperezar y renovar la Universidad de Oviedo y a renovarla externamente. Un espíritu, el del denominado «Grupo de Oviedo» de los Alas, Sela, Buylla, Posada, Altamira, Aramburu, Canella, entre...

Patricios en contienda explora las maneras en que los cuadros de costumbres fueron usados en Colombia, Ecuador y Venezuela para nacionalizar poblaciones heterogeneas y producir pueblos nacionales para estos tres paises tras la disolucion de la llamada Gran Colombia (1819-1831). Al situar los cuadros de costumbres en el contexto de las guerras civiles y reformas liberales, esta investigacion muestra como las antiguas elites orgullosas de su abolengo colonial--como Jose Maria Vergara y Vergara (1831-1872) o Fermin Toro (1806-1865)--los usaron para legitimarse frente a las nuevas elites que...

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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...