La irrupción zapatista, 1911

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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...

Paisaje con figuras estudia el viaje del Beagle por el sur americano, en el que abordaron Robert Fitz Roy y un joven Charles Darwin, y las representaciones literarias y visuales producidas durante la travesía. Enmarcada en algunas aproximaciones de las teorías poscoloniales, Penhos busca desnaturalizar los discursos heredados por medio del estudio de las imágenes en su contexto de producción, y desenmascarar la violencia implícita en las relaciones coloniales en las que se inscriben estos viajes, que puede descubrirse también en sus imágenes y discursos.

Un crimen sentimental constituye una imponante aponación a la nueva historia cultural del pensamiento y de los sentimientos [...] la gran prueba a la que se enfrentan los historiadores no es demostrar todo lo que saben, sino cómo abordar aquello que desconocen. John Brewer toma un acontecimiento oscuro, sensacional aunque menor en la era georgiana -el asesinato de la amante de un aristócrata por un pretendiente no correspondido-, y plantea una emocionante revisión de la historia social. Sugiere una historia de historias; abraza lo incierto. Es [un libro] absolutamente riguroso, escrito...