La memoria, la historia, el olvido

Retórica, historia y polémica is a study of Bartolomé de las Casas' writings, within the context of the European Renaissance intellectual tradition. The book examines the rhetoric and "politics of discourse" to demonstrate how the Dominican advocate of Amerindian rights subverted the relationship between Renaissance Christian humanism and New World experience, thus arriving at the most pervasive antihegemonic perspective of the conquest. The project focuses principally on Las Casas' most ambitious text, Historia de las Indias (1522-1527), although examples are also drawn from De unico...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

This book is perhaps the most profound, sincere, and all encompassing look into the character of the Cuban people: their triumphs and falls, their past, present and future. An important and lucid book for understanding the history and reality of the Cuban nation.

Los autores denuncian, desde diferentes perspectivas, cómo Israel desarrolla una estrategia perfectamente planificada de ocupación y desalojo de Palestina, y cómo la llamada comunidad internacional emite, como mucho, algunas quejas retóricas en las que sitúa al agresor y al agredido en el mismo plano. Eso cuando no se refiere en términos más duros y conminativos a la resistencia palestina (calificada de «terrorista», sin matiz de ningún tipo) que a la acción criminal del Estado sionista, de la que sólo deplora sus «excesos», como si toda su política genocida no fuera en sí...