The American continent, during the modern era, was a woman. Letrados of the 16th and 17th centuries imagined it as an untamed Amazon surrounded by wild fauna. And, above all, anthropophagous. She was the antithesis of the Christian city, where idolatry reigned. It was then that the viceroyalties established a...
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We offer here a study and edition of what was probably the first newspaper of the Americas: the Journal of outstanding news in Lima and the News of Europe, which were printed in the workshops of Jose de Contreras and Alvarado between 1700 and 1711 in the capital of the...
The present edition, by María Inés Zaldívar Ovalle, gives the reader the Relationship that leaves upon his government Mr. Francisco de Borja y Aragón, Prince of Esquilache, viceroy of Peru between 1615 and 1621, and the subsequent Judgment of the Royal Council of the Indies, in 1626. It also includes,...
Marrero-Fente, Raúl, Trayectorias globales: Estudios Coloniales en el mundo hispánico 2013, 177 pp. ISBN: 978-84-8489-731-6 Este libro propone una revisión del estudio de los orígenes del imperio español en el siglo XVI a partir de una perspectiva global. La tesis central de esta investigación es que para llegar a entender...