Historia del taxi de Madrid

La tribu otomí y las que guardan parentesco con ella se configuran todavía entre las poblaciones menos conocidas de México. La lectura de este trabajo, cuyas dos partes más importantes están dedicadas a las lenguas de la familia otomí-pame, pone en evidencia su carácter fundamentalmente lingüístico.

Este libro constituye el primer estudio en profundidad de un conjunto de obras escritas durante el periodo colonial español dedicadas al este y el sudeste asiáticos, un importante corpus de textos que, a pesar de su relevancia, no habían recibido hasta el momento la atención que merecían. Desde una perspectiva interdisciplinar y marcadamente humana, el autor examina la descripción que se hace en estas obras de Asia, de sus habitantes y sus culturas –a partir del grado de semejanza o diferencia respecto a los europeos– y las reacciones que la presencia de los españoles provocó en...

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Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...