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El Capit N De Oxford
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Author : Jorge José Rivas González
language : es
Publisher: Chiado Editorial
Release Date : 2016-09-16
El Capit N De Oxford written by Jorge José Rivas González and has been published by Chiado Editorial this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-09-16 with categories.
La obra narra los desesperantes azares del sacerdote andaluz, Miguel Orientes, que comienzan en la prisión del arsenal de La Carraca en Cádiz, en el año de 1816. Había participado en la llamada Conspiración de San Blas en Madrid hacía casi veinte años, pagando condena en las mefíticas bóvedas de la Guaira, en la entonces Capitanía General de Venezuela. El religioso jura dar hasta su último aliento, en su lucha contra la monarquía que asola a España y gran parte de América. En septiembre de 1816 obtiene su liberación, y luego de un periplo por varias islas del Caribe, incluido Panamá, llega a Venezuela. Allí se une de inmediato al miserable ejército republicano, liderado por Simón Bolívar, que se encuentra oponiendo débil resistencia a las organizadas fuerzas realistas, en la ciudad de Barcelona, al oriente del atormentado país. En abril de 1817, luego que los republicanos, militares y civiles, resisten un estrecho sitio, que los deja sin agua ni alimentos, encerrados en un convento franciscano, bautizado como la “Casa Fuerte”, son invadidos salvajemente por el coronel Juan de Aldama, quien logra pasar a cuchillo a casi mil cuatrocientos personas, logrando sortear la degollina unos cuarenta, entre ellos Miguel y un joven mulato de nombre Matías, que se convierte en su ángel guardián. En su huida hacia el sur, logran arribar a la ciudad de Angostura, ocupada por los republicanos. En esa importante ciudad, el religioso conoce a buena parte del primer contingente de inexpertos soldados británicos que acaban de llegar, con la intención de incorporarse al ejército patriota bajo el mando de Bolívar. Debido a los profundos y valiosos conocimientos de francés e inglés del sacerdote, es asignado para servir como traductor de los europeos. En esa misma ciudad, Miguel conoce a un adinerado joven inglés de unos veinte años, llamado Richard Longfield Vowell, personaje histórico con quien establece una estrecha relación de respeto y amistad, que se consolida a medida que padecen los innumerables pesares e infortunios, en aquella guerra de exterminio, que duraría catorce años. Al poco tiempo, el unificado ejército patriota parte rumbo a los llanos centrales para presentar batalla al experimentado ejército realista, comandado por el egregio y olvidado general español Pablo Morillo y Morillo, que con el título de “Pacificador”, llega a Venezuela, en abril de 1815, para aplastar fácilmente la incipiente rebelión que se está librando en esas tierras. En medio de las sufridas y extenuantes campañas, realizadas por los republicanos, el sacerdote se sorprende ante la actuación del inexperto militar, Vowell, quien se bate con insólita bravura, defendiendo un territorio del que no es originario. Pronto, Vowell comienza a escribir un diario en el cual registra las vivencias que resiste el sacerdote durante el pavoroso terremoto que destroza a Caracas y a buena parte del país en el año de 1812. En ese importante diario, el inglés también describe todo lo que observa y experimenta: la fauna y la vegetación de su entorno, así como los padecimientos de hambre, sed, enfermedades y muerte de sus compañeros. En el año de 1818, la guerra se traslada a los calurosos y desolados llanos occidentales. Miguel, sabiendo que le resta poco tiempo de vida, debido a una extraña afección que azota a su piel, decide abandonar sus labores como traductor y se dirige a un apacible islote, en frente de las costas venezolanas, conocido como Chacachacare, para escribir todo lo que ha vivido en esa interminable guerra, desde el primer grito de rebelión ocurrido en 1810. Se despide con mucha tristeza de Vowell, sabedores ambos, que no se volverán a ver jamás. El incansable inglés opta por continuar en la contienda. Meses después, Bolívar decide traspasar la frontera e internarse con su exiguo y menesteroso ejército en el Virreinato de la Nueva Granada, para tratar de sorprender al general realista José María Barreiro, que con sus cuatro mil quinientos soldados, resguarda el paso hacia la capital, Santa Fe de Bogotá. Morillo, quien para ese momento controla el norte del país, decide partir hacia Caracas, convencido de la imposibilidad de que Bolívar ascienda con éxito la ciclópea cordillera para dirigirse a Bogotá, una vez iniciada la temporada de lluvias. Bolívar no obstante, emprende la mortal travesía cruzando el inhóspito páramo de Pisba a más de tres mil cuatrocientos metros sobre el nivel del mar, con Vowell, entre sus hombres. Atraviesan precipicios y barrancos. El hambre y el frío, se llevan a más de quinientos de los hombres de Bolívar. Casi desnudos y famélicos, llegan el 25 de julio de 1819, al sector conocido como Pantano de Vargas, en donde, de forma insólita, logran derrotar a Barreiro, haciéndolo retroceder hasta Boyacá, y el 7 de agosto, es completamente derrotado, liberando así definitivamente el virreinato. Richard Vowell, puede escribir y conservar en medio de las dificultades más grandes imaginables, todos sus apuntes, y una vez que regresa a Inglaterra, en el año de 1832, luego de catorce años de luchas en América, cargado de honores y reconocimientos militares por parte de Simón Bolívar, Bernardo O ́Higgins y del almirante Thomas Cochrane, entre otros destacados jefes militares, luego publica tres libros: El Terremoto de Caracas, Las Sabanas de Barinas y Campañas y Cruceros. El inglés, ya con treinta y siete años a cuestas, decide partir a trabajar en Norfolk Island, remota y peligrosa colonia penitenciaria ubicada en Australia. Allí padece la prisión, y corre el riesgo de ser sentenciado a la pena de muerte, debido a unos hechos muy confusos que se producen en esa penitenciaria. Finalmente es liberado, y decide pasar allí el resto de su vida. En 1870, a la edad de setenta y cinco años, y con una aventurada vida a cuestas, agoniza solitario en su lecho de muerte, portando un mechón de cabello de una dama que había conocido en los remotos llanos venezolanos. Richard Vowell, aquel atolondrado joven rico e inquieto de Oxford, que había dominado las más grandes privaciones, muere derrotado por la única prueba que no logra superar, en su prolongada y extraordinaria existencia: Ser correspondido por la mujer que amó. De su legado literario, El Terremoto de Caracas y Las Sabanas de Barinas, son exquisitas obras de narrativa, mediante las cuales describe una gran cantidad de increíbles sucesos que se desencadenan durante la guerra, teniendo como protagonistas, a una pareja de jóvenes que luchan por casarse en medio de la tragedia. Campañas y Cruceros, es una crónica de los avatares que tiene que enfrentar cuando llega a Venezuela en el año de 1817, pasando por la nueva Granada, Quito y finalmente Chile, donde combate como Capitán de la Armada. Todas estas inapreciables obras son escritas bajo el seudónimo: “Un Oficial Ingles”. En 1837, son traducidas y publicadas al francés. En el año de 1924, el Dr. Luis Romero Zuloaga, luego de paciente estudio y arduo seguimiento, consigue dar con la identidad del misterioso “Oficial Inglés”, demostrando de manera concluyente, que este heroico y misterioso personaje no podría ser otro, que el Capitán Richard Vowell.
Oxford Ib Diploma Programme Spanish B Course Companion
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Author : Ana Valbuena
language : en
Publisher: Oxford University Press - Children
Release Date : 2013-03-21
Oxford Ib Diploma Programme Spanish B Course Companion written by Ana Valbuena and has been published by Oxford University Press - Children this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-03-21 with categories.
The Spanish course book and Study Guide have been written specifically for the Languages B programme which will be taught from September 2011 with first assessment from May 2013. These two components are suitable for both Higher and Standard level students. These two components provide plenty of guidance and information about topics that students need to deal with the themes, text types and assessment required for the new Languages B Diploma programme. The course book covers all the core and optional topics and has a separate unit on literature. Students are given a wide variety of text types and assessment-style questions and are encouraged to think and reflect in an IB-inspired way. Further links are made throughout to Theory of Knowledge and Creativity, Action, Service. ·The most comprehensive and written specifically for the most recent Language B syllabus, including all the options ·Authentic and current Spanish texts resonate with learners and drive discussion, strengthening critical thought ·
El Capit N Richard F Burton
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Author : Edward Rice
language : es
Publisher: Siruela
Release Date : 2024-01-24
El Capit N Richard F Burton written by Edward Rice and has been published by Siruela this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-24 with Biography & Autobiography categories.
Famoso en todo el mundo por su voraz apetito por los viajes, las mujeres, la vida y el conocimiento prohibido, Richard F. Burton escandalizó a la sociedad victoriana. La interpretación que Rice hace de él es tan dramática, compleja y convincente como el propio personaje. Richard F. Burton es una figura victoriana deslumbrante y descomunal, y la espléndida biografía de Rice ofrece un retrato tan dramático, complejo y convincente como el propio personaje. Ninguna biografía sobre él es tan definitiva y amena como esta. El capitán sir Richard Francis Burton (Torquay, Devonshire, 1821-Trieste, 1890), escritor, militar, místico, científico, explorador, diplomático y agente secreto del gobierno británico, es el paradigma del erudito aventurero del siglo XIX, convertido en leyenda viva para sus propios contemporáneos. En este fascinante libro, Rice recrea las hazañas de un personaje brillante, derroche de audacia y magnetismo, que hablaba veintinueve idiomas y tenía una gran habilidad para acceder a lugares donde ningún hombre blanco había estado haciéndose pasar por nativo. Fue el guía de una expedición que recorrió el vasto territorio africano en busca del origen del Nilo, algo que ningún europeo había hecho, y llegó a ciudades prohibidas como La Meca, Medina o la sagrada Harar. Rice destaca también la formidable curiosidad intelectual de Burton y sus impresionantes logros literarios: escribió las crónicas de sus viajes por América, Asia y África, tradujo diecisiete volúmenes de Las mil y una noches y descubrió para Occidente el Kama Sutra y el Ananga Ranga. En su obra expresó su rechazo de algunos errores del colonialismo británico o de la mojigatería victoriana, así como de algunas costumbres bárbaras que conoció durante sus viajes. Pero, por encima de todo, Burton intentó dar sentido a su existencia a través de una constante búsqueda espiritual, a veces con la ayuda del opio o de otras drogas, e interesándose por la cábala, la alquimia, el cristianismo y diversas religiones orientales, para acabar convertido al sufismo, disciplina mística que practicó hasta el fin de su vida. «Lleno de acción e intriga [...]. Cualquier novelista que inventara un personaje como Burton sería acusado de aunar lo imposible y lo improbable, pero resulta que realmente él era así». Atlantic Monthly«Esta obra maestra de historia y biografía convierte las aventuras de la vida real de Burton en un relato fascinante [...]. La última gran obra sobre el último gran explorador de la era colonial». Wall Street Journal
The Persistence Of Violence
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Author : Toby Miller
language : en
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Release Date : 2020-07-17
The Persistence Of Violence written by Toby Miller and has been published by Rutgers University Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2020-07-17 with Social Science categories.
Colombia’s headline story, about the peace process with guerrilla and its attendant controversies, does not consider the fundamental contradiction of a nation that spans generosity and violence, warmth and hatred—products of its particular pattern of invasion, dispossession, and enslavement. The Persistence of Violence fills that gap in understanding. Colombia is a place that is two countries in one—the ideal and the real—summed up in the idiomatic expression, not unique to Colombia, but particularly popular there, "Hecha la ley, hecha la trampa" (When you pass a law, you create a loophole). Less cynically, and more poetically, the Nobel Laureate Gabriel García Márquez deemed Colombians capable of both the most noble acts and the most abject ones, in a world where it seems anyone might do anything, from the beautiful to the horrendous.The Persistence of Violence draws on those contradictions and paradoxes to look at how violence—and resistance to it—characterize Colombian popular culture, from football to soap opera to journalism to tourism to the environment.
Cultures Of Conflict Resolution In Early Modern Europe
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Author : Stephen Cummins
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2017-05-15
Cultures Of Conflict Resolution In Early Modern Europe written by Stephen Cummins and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-05-15 with History categories.
Disputes, discord and reconciliation were fundamental parts of the fabric of communal living in early modern Europe. This edited volume presents essays on the cultural codes of conflict and its resolution in this period under three broad themes: peacemaking as practice; the nature of mediation and arbitration; and the role of criminal law in conflicts. Through an exploration of conflict and peacemaking, this volume provides innovative accounts of state formation, community and religion in the early modern period.
Francisco L Pez De G Mara S General History Of The Indies
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Author :
language : en
Publisher: University Press of Colorado
Release Date : 2024-01-02
Francisco L Pez De G Mara S General History Of The Indies written by and has been published by University Press of Colorado this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2024-01-02 with History categories.
This work is the first English translation of the entire text of part one of sixteenth-century Spanish historian Francisco López de Gómara’s General History of the Indies. Including substantial critical annotations and providing access to various readings and passages added to or removed from the successive editions of the 1550s, this translation expands the archive of texts available to English speakers reconsidering the various aspects of the European invasion of America. General History of the Indies was the first universal history of the recent discoveries and conquests of the New World made available to the Old World audience. At publication it consisted of two parts: the first a general history of the European discovery, conquest, and settlement of the Americas, and the second a detailed description of Cortés’s conquest of Mexico. Part one—in the multiple Spanish editions and translations into Italian and French published at the time—was the most comprehensive, popular, and accessible account of the natural history and geography of the Americas, the ethnology of the peoples of the New World, and the history of the Spanish conquest, including the most recent developments in Peru. Despite its original and continued importance, however, it had never been translated into English. Gómara’s history communicates Europeans’ general understanding of the New World throughout the middle and later sixteenth century. A lively, comparatively brief description of Europe’s expansion into the Americas with significant importance to today’s understanding of the early modern worldview, Francisco López de Gómara’s General History of the Indies will be of great interest to students of and specialists in Latin American history, Latin American literature, anthropology, and cultural studies, as well as specialists in Spanish American intellectual history and colonial Latin America.
Siege Warfare
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Author : Christopher Duffy
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2013-04-15
Siege Warfare written by Christopher Duffy and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2013-04-15 with History categories.
This classic text is the first integrated survey of the phenomenon of siege warfare during its most creative period. Duffy demonstrates the implications of the fortress for questions of military organization, strategy, geography, law, architectural values, town life and symbolism and imagination. The book is well illustrated, and will be a valuable companion for enthusiasts of military and architectural history, as well as the general medievalist.
The Epic Mirror
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Author : Imogen Choi
language : en
Publisher: Boydell & Brewer
Release Date : 2022
The Epic Mirror written by Imogen Choi and has been published by Boydell & Brewer this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2022 with Literary Criticism categories.
How did Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century use epic poetry to search for ethical solutions to the violent conflicts of their age?Winner of the 2017-18 AHGBI-Spanish Embassy Publication Prize The Epic Mirror studies how Spanish-American writers and veterans in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth century used epic poetry to search for ethical solutions to the violent conflicts of their age. The wars about which they wrote took place at the frontiers of the Spanish empire, where new political communities were emerging: fiercely independent Amerindian republics, rebellious Spanish settlers, maroon kingdoms of fugitive African slaves. This colonial reality generated a distinctive vision of just warfare and political community. Working across the fields of Hispanic literature, the history of political thought, and studies of empire, colonialism and globalisation, Choi reinterprets three major works of colonial Latin American literature: Alonso de Ercilla's La Araucana (1569-90), Pedro de Oña's Arauco domado (1596), and Juan de Miramontes Zuázola's Armas antárticas (1608-9). She argues that these works provide a rare insight into the development of political thought in Viceregal Peru. Through the imaginative mirrors of epic, the reader is forced to ask the same questions of the unfinished conquests of the Americas as of those in Africa, Asia or Europe: when conflicting forces are divided by irreconcilable world views, even if the war is won, how is it possible to achieve peace?'s La Araucana (1569-90), Pedro de Oña's Arauco domado (1596), and Juan de Miramontes Zuázola's Armas antárticas (1608-9). She argues that these works provide a rare insight into the development of political thought in Viceregal Peru. Through the imaginative mirrors of epic, the reader is forced to ask the same questions of the unfinished conquests of the Americas as of those in Africa, Asia or Europe: when conflicting forces are divided by irreconcilable world views, even if the war is won, how is it possible to achieve peace?'s La Araucana (1569-90), Pedro de Oña's Arauco domado (1596), and Juan de Miramontes Zuázola's Armas antárticas (1608-9). She argues that these works provide a rare insight into the development of political thought in Viceregal Peru. Through the imaginative mirrors of epic, the reader is forced to ask the same questions of the unfinished conquests of the Americas as of those in Africa, Asia or Europe: when conflicting forces are divided by irreconcilable world views, even if the war is won, how is it possible to achieve peace?'s La Araucana (1569-90), Pedro de Oña's Arauco domado (1596), and Juan de Miramontes Zuázola's Armas antárticas (1608-9). She argues that these works provide a rare insight into the development of political thought in Viceregal Peru. Through the imaginative mirrors of epic, the reader is forced to ask the same questions of the unfinished conquests of the Americas as of those in Africa, Asia or Europe: when conflicting forces are divided by irreconcilable world views, even if the war is won, how is it possible to achieve peace?war is won, how is it possible to achieve peace?
The Culture Of Piracy 1580 1630
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Author : Claire Jowitt
language : en
Publisher: Routledge
Release Date : 2016-12-05
The Culture Of Piracy 1580 1630 written by Claire Jowitt and has been published by Routledge this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2016-12-05 with Literary Criticism categories.
Listening to what she terms 'unruly pirate voices' in early modern English literature, in this study Claire Jowitt offers an original and compelling analysis of the cultural meanings of 'piracy'. By examining the often marginal figure of the pirate (and also the sometimes hard-to-distinguish privateer) Jowitt shows how flexibly these figures served to comment on English nationalism, international relations, and contemporary politics. She considers the ways in which piracy can, sometimes in surprising and resourceful ways, overlap and connect with, rather than simply challenge, some of the foundations underpinning Renaissance orthodoxies-absolutism, patriarchy, hierarchy of birth, and the superiority of Europeans and the Christian religion over other peoples and belief systems. Jowitt's discussion ranges over a variety of generic forms including public drama, broadsheets and ballads, prose romance, travel writing, and poetry from the fifty-year period stretching across the reigns of three English monarchs: Elizabeth Tudor, and James and Charles Stuart. Among the early modern writers whose works are analyzed are Heywood, Hakluyt, Shakespeare, Sidney, and Wroth; and among the multifaceted historical figures discussed are Francis Drake, John Ward, Henry Mainwaring, Purser and Clinton. What she calls the 'semantics of piracy' introduces a rich symbolic vein in which these figures, operating across different cultural registers and appealing to audiences in multiple ways, represent and reflect many changing discourses, political and artistic, in early modern England. The first book-length study to look at the cultural impact of Renaissance piracy, The Culture of Piracy, 1580-1630 underlines how the figure of the Renaissance pirate was not only sensational, but also culturally significant. Despite its transgressive nature, piracy also comes to be seen as one of the key mechanisms which served to connect peoples and regions during this period.
From Idols To Antiquity
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Author : Miruna Achim
language : en
Publisher: U of Nebraska Press
Release Date : 2017-12-01
From Idols To Antiquity written by Miruna Achim and has been published by U of Nebraska Press this book supported file pdf, txt, epub, kindle and other format this book has been release on 2017-12-01 with History categories.
From Idols to Antiquity explores the origins and tumultuous development of the National Museum of Mexico and the complicated histories of Mexican antiquities during the first half of the nineteenth century. Following independence from Spain, the National Museum of Mexico was founded in 1825 by presidential decree. Nationhood meant cultural as well as political independence, and the museum was expected to become a repository of national objects whose stories would provide the nation with an identity and teach its people to become citizens. Miruna Achim reconstructs the early years of the museum as an emerging object shaped by the logic and goals of historical actors who soon found themselves debating the origin of American civilizations, the nature of the American races, and the rightful ownership of antiquities. Achim also brings to life an array of fascinating characters—antiquarians, naturalists, artists, commercial agents, bureaucrats, diplomats, priests, customs officers, local guides, and academics on both sides of the Atlantic—who make visible the rifts and tensions intrinsic to the making of the Mexican nation and its cultural politics in the country’s postcolonial era.