Ruinas de utopía

El imperio romano duró diez siglos, un fenómeno excepcional en la historia de la humanidad. Y excepcional fue también su capital, Roma, una pequeña ciudad que, tras desaparecer casi cien veces en ese período, logró derrotar a sus vecinos en el Lazio y se adueñó del todo el mundo conocido, limitado entonces al Mar Mediterráneo. Sin embargo, los romanos rechazaban la guerra y amaban la paz. Desarrollaron un orden político y económico sin precedentes, y su cultura se extendió por todo el orbe, hasta la caída del Imperio en el siglo V d. C. Este libro ofrece una visión general de su ...

"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

The Demographic Observatory 2017, devoted to the topic of mortality, supports analysis of mortality differentials by sex and age in the Latin American countries between 1950 and 2020. The tables presented in this edition were obtained by interpolation of the life tables implicit in 2017 revision of the population estimates and projections prepared by CELADE-Population Division of ECLAC, jointly or in consultation with the countries' national statistical offices. As usual, an analytical chapter is included, on this occasion presenting mortality differentials by age and sex in selected...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la secretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.