El Rey

A heart cries from exile. Memories of the country left behind mix with and get mixed up with the realities of the country of refuge. The stories in this collection taken together narrate the education of the heart, a heart uprooted by civil war in Spain and given refuge in Mexico, launched on a new life, to stitch them together to form a coherent whole.

Una historia de la civilización española, que aspire a reflejar la evolución de la vida entera de un pueblo, España, tiene que estudiar todas y cada una de las manifestaciones que han ido modelando el caracter del pueblo español, forjando su estructura política, dando vida a sus ideas y dejando en él una herencia cultural.

Based upon a 1995 earlier work with the same title, it provides a succinct panorma of the diversity of the Automous Regions of Spain as constituent parts of today's Spain. Includes information on geographical, historical, political, sociopolitical, and population distribution topics. Includes a Spanish-language glossary of terms.

"Important synthesis brings together Klein's archival research and his thorough reading of published monographs. He examines three administrative areas: the Viceroyalty of Peru, the Audiencia of Charcas, and the Viceroyalty of New Spain. Interpretive concluding chapter contrasts the rise of New Spain with the decline of Peru"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.