La revolución a debate

Esta obra rescata debates trabados en el Congreso nacional en torno a un par de iniciativas gubernamentales destinadas a establecer los primeros instrumentos modernos de protección del patrimonio arqueológico mexicano. Estos debates, que surgieron durante la última década del siglo XIX, fueron la respuesta a las depredaciones y saqueos practicados por exploradores extranjeros independientes y por agentes de coleccionistas y de los grandes museos del centro-este de Estados Unidos. Se trata de textos parlamentarios de difícil acceso que hoy se ponen al alcance de estudiosos de la historia...

El Gran Norte es la región más inhóspita de lo que hoy conocemos como el Oeste americano, una región donde las abruptas cadenas montañosas se alternan con altiplanos desérticos de magnitud inconmensurable, la frontera norte del vasto imperio español en América, una auténtica Terra Incognita. El territorio que Bernardo de Miera y Pacheco y sus compañeros de expedición fatigaron durante meses para explorar y cartografiar, en un recorrido tan agotador que les obligó a comerse sus propios caballos para sobrevivir. Pero esta es solo una de las hazañas de una existencia llena de...

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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...