La máscara de hierro

En el sistema premial español –e hispanoamericano–, ocupa un lugar de preferencia la Real y Americana Orden de Isabel la Católica, establecida el 24 de marzo de 1815, en plena crisis de la independencia de los territorios americanos, y cuyo bicentenario estamos conmemorando en este mismo año 2015. Creada para favorecer la unión de ambos mundos bajo la Corona española –lo que no pudo lograrse–, sus cruces vinieron a distinguir a los patriotas que se distinguieron en esa frustrada acción unificadora. Por ello, esta fue propiamente la primera condecoración de casi todos aquellos...

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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...

El presente volumen recoge diversas investigaciones recientes sobre aspectos relevantes y novedosos para la compresión y estudio del siglo XVIII en diferentes lugares del continente americano: Nueva Inglaterra, la cuenca del mar Caribe, Nueva España, el Nuevo Reino de Granada, Quito y Brasil. El grupo de historiadores que ha hecho posible este libro se ha encargado de llamar la atención sobre la significativa importancia del siglo XVIII como una época de consolidación, pero a su vez, de innumerables fracasos, que impulsaron la decadencia del dominio europeo en una vastísima porción del ...