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How did Spanish America influence the creation of an independent Brazil? In the six studies that this book contains, Joao Paulo Pimenta covers several points of contact between the Hispanic and Luso-American revolutionary processes in an attempt to show that the reciprocal parallelisms imply an erroneous separation of the two movements which are actually just one

Enviado por el Museo de Historia Natural de París, a la edad de 23 años, el joven naturalista francés Alcide d'Orbigny recorrió durante ocho años la América meridonal (Brasil, Argentina, Paraguay, Uruguay, Chile, Perú y Bolivia) y a su regreso a Francia compuso una monumental obra publicada entre 1835 y 1847 con el título de Voyage dans l'Amérique Méridionale en nueve tomos y 11 volúmenes con más de 5 mil páginas y 500 ilustraciones. A pedido del presidente boliviano José Ballivián, en 1845 se editó un fragmento de la obra de d'Orbigny y no fue sino hasta un siglo después que ...

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Perhaps the opening paragraph from Paul Larson¿s (Baylor University) prologue to the Epistola ad Mahomatem II summarizes what this new Scripta Humanistica volume has to offer to readers of literature and history alike: ¿This new scholarly edition certainly begs the question: how can a fifteenth century letter from the then Pope Pius II to the Muslim conqueror of Constantinople have any relevance for contemporary scholars and students in the early 21st century? Embroiled as we are in chaotic and tumultuous religious and political conflict in Europe and the Middle East, perhaps the answer is...