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La correspondencia de Benito Arias Montano con el Presidente de Indias Juan de Ovando recoge el intercambio epistolar de un alto cargo de la administración filipina, que aprovecha la estancia de su viejo amigo Arias Montano en Flandes, donde este dirige la edición de la Biblia Políglota de Amberes, para surtirse de toda clase de libros, mapas, instrumentos astronómicos y hasta de unas pocas pinturas a precios más asequibles que en la península. Y nos permite hacer un seguimiento detallado de los pedidos hasta su recepción final en la corte, pasando por el transporte, aduana e...

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

The Gross Domestic Product (GDP) was created during 1940s. It's a key indicator of economic policy, and it's considered as rule to measure the significance of a country's economy, and it's a common base for other important indicators, such as fiscal deficit and the human development index (HDI). Diane Coyle reminds us that this instrument is not supposed to turn into a fetish; on the contrary, since it possesses a history that explains its consolidation, along with a structure and strategies that show the conception of economy from those who postulate it. Nonetheless, the GDP is currently one ...

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