Los cazadores de la banda del valle

En este libro, el autor estudia los c dices de la tradici n mesoamericana a partir de las convenciones pictogr ficas que exist an entre pintores y provincias, centr ndose en las representaciones del cuerpo humano y la discusi n sobre el naturalismo. Su aproximaci n tiene que ver, no con el desciframiento, sino con el modo en que la informaci n era transmitida. la historia de las oscilaciones de este arte ind gena del siglo XVI, ampliado por el canon del Renacimiento impuesto por los frailes pero, al mismo tiempo, conservado en algunas destrezas, t cnicas y g neros, es la historia que busca...

Take a trip to Mexico to explore its diverse geography, wildlife, history, and cuisine. A rich vocabulary exposes readers to Mexico, its wildlife, and most famous sites.

In this new telling of Mexico's Second Empire and Louis Napoléon's installation of Maximilian von Habsburg and his wife, Carlota of Belgium, as the emperor and empress of Mexico, Maximilian and Carlota brings the dramatic, interesting, and tragic time of this six-year-siege to life. From 1861 to 1866, the French incorporated the armies of Austria, Belgium--including forces from Crimea to Egypt--to fight and subdue the regime of Mexico's Benito Juárez during the time of the U.S. Civil War. France viewed this as a chance to seize Mexican territory in a moment they were convinced the...

Cuenta la vida del cura Miguel Hidalgo y Costilla, las obras que cumplió donde sea que se le mandara, y el papel que tuvo en la revolución para la independencia de México.

The Medieval Heritage of Mexico is the result of more than thirty years' intensive research. This work examines, more thoroughly than any other, the medieval legacy that influences life in Spanish-speaking North America to the present day. Focusing on the period from 1517--the expedition of Hernandez de Cordoba--to the middle of the seventeenth century, Weckmann describes how explorers, administrators, judges, and clergy introduced to the New World a culture that was essentially medieval. This culture was, in some respects, a flowering--a rebirth, even--of the ideals and institutions of...