Libro I: Enigmas de las Américas: Geografía y expediciones del Nuevo Orbis

La colección "Enigmas de las Américas" analiza expediciones de siglos pasados que buscaron descifrar enigmas de la geografía del continente americano. En cada libro, especialistas internacionales escriben artículos donde analizan, desde distintas perspectivas y diversos momentos, el impacto de estas expediciones en la construcción de imaginarios y en la cartografía, es decir, en aquellos dispositivos visuales conocidos como mapas. El presente libro se enfoca en el esfuerzo por descifrar el enigma del paso interoceánico en diversos puntos de la geografía americana. De acuerdo con el...

This book provides an introduction to ancient Egypt. Beginning with a geographical overview that explains the development of Egyptian belief systems and its political development, it examines methodology, the history of Egyptology, religion, social organization, urban and rural life, and death.

Este libro pretende resaltar la importancia de lo novedoso del manuscrito, Crónica y relación de la esclarecida descendencia xarifa. Importancia que aparte de estar centrada en el descubrimiento de un texto con una gran cantidad de elementos chiíes en castellano, reside igualmente en el hecho de encontrarnos con un texto que nos dice mucho de la comunidad de moriscos exiliados en el s. XVII, de sus anhelos culturales, de su necesidad de inculturizarse, de ponerse al día, de reencontrarse con la sociedad islámica de la cual nunca se habían separado. En definitiva el manuscrito no es más ...

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 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...