Atletas y ciudadanos

Peter Kornbluh, director del National Security Archive's Chile Documentation Project, ha conseguido que se desclasificaran más de 24.000 documentos secretos (los más importantes de los cuales se reproducen en este libro fotográficamente) procedentes de la Secretaría de Estado y de la CIA, sobre la cobertura prestada por Nixon y Kissinger al general Pinochet y a los militares golpistas para acabar con la democracia en Chile. Este libro, que supone un salto cualitativo en el conocimiento del golpe de estado que derrocó a Salvador Allende, de la brutal represión interior que siguió, y de...

The Improbable Conquest offers translations of a series of little-known letters from the chaotic Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata region, uncovering a rich and understudied historical resource. These letters were written by a wide variety of individuals, including clergy, military officers, and the region’s first governor, Pedro de Mendoza. There is also an exceptional contribution from Isabel de Guevara, one of the few women involved in the conquest to have recorded her experiences. Writing about the conditions of settlements and expeditions, these individuals vividly expose the...

Esta obra es la continuaci n de los vol menes sobre Benito Ju rez publicados en 2006. En ella se hace un repaso de los art culos, los libros, las rese as y algunos episodios que comentan los temas tratados en los dos libros anteriores.

n the last decades—and especially since the 1990s—there has been a noticeable reemergence of the nineteenth century in Southern Cone culture. Popular nineteenth-century figures (indios, gauchos, letrados, and cautivas) have reentered the national literary scene in Argentina, Chile, and Uruguay. Nineteenth-century heroes such as San Martín and Artigas are again the main protagonists of Southern Cone theater, film, and literature. Canonical nineteenth-century texts (La cautiva, Martín Fierro, Facundo) are being rewritten one more time in different artistic fields. Foundational...