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Libro sobre la contingencia en formato especial, escritor por el autor best seller nacional. Desde el comienzo de la llamada 'primavera chilena', el escritor Jorge Baradit le tomó el pulso a una revolución sin precedentes, que devino tanto en marchas y protestas como en asambleas espontáneas, organizadas por los ciudadanos comunes y corrientes en plazas, juntas de vecinos, clubes deportivos. Baradit también participó de esos encuentros y mucho de lo que en ellos se reflexionó está aquí, en este libro urgente y necesario, un manifiesto que recoge el clamor ciudadano y la rabia contenida.
Jorge Baradit, Jorge Marcos Baradit Morales (Author), Sebastián Fernández Robles (Narrator)
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Lo que dicen de nosotros: La Guerra del Pacífico en la historiografía y textos escolares chilenos
Las relaciones internacionales entre el Perú, Chile y Bolivia se han caracterizado por la alternancia entre periodos de tranquilidad y de fricción. Así, las imágenes con las que cada una de estas sociedades representa a las otras dos generan una percepción del vecino como sujeto hostil y distinto. Para Daniel Parodi Revoredo, el origen de estos imaginarios radica en el proceso histórico del siglo XIX y en la ocurrencia de la Guerra del Pacífico (1879-1883). En dicha centuria se escribieron las historias oficiales, que requerían de un vehículo de transmisión que las instalase en el colectivo, lo que motivó la publicación de los primeros manuales escolares. El vínculo entre el proceso de construcción de la nación y la producción de narrativas patrióticas anima esta obra. El autor se interesa por la vigencia de historias nacionales en la sociedad contemporánea y busca comprender las formas que hoy adoptan las representaciones de la nación propia y las vecinas en el discurso histórico. Para ello, en Lo que dicen de nosotros, Parodi Revoredo analiza la versión chilena de la Guerra del Pacífico y recrea sus argumentos centrales. Además, retoma el esquema tradicional de la historia republicana de Chile y lo confronta con los contenidos impresos en la colección de manuales escolares chilenos. Se trata, en suma, de una obra indispensable pues, en palabras de la historiadora Carmen McEvoy, 'no es posible abordar la relación peruano-chilena y la mitificación que la modela sin remontar, como lo hace Daniel Parodi en este libro pionero, el primer obstáculo que nos divide: la huella indeleble dejada por la Guerra del Pacífico en nuestros imaginarios nacionales'.
Daniel Parodi Revoredo (Author), Andrés Masías Hernández (Narrator)
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Brought to you by Penguin. 'With reason, evidence, common sense, uncompromising candour and disciplined imagination Fernando Cervantes makes the conquistadores believable' Felipe Fernández-Armesto The 'conquistadores', the early explorers and settlers of Spanish America, have become the stuff of legends and nightmares. In their own time, they were glorified as heroic adventurers, spreading Christian culture and helping to build an empire unlike any the world had ever seen. Today, they stand condemned for their cruelty and exploitation, as men who decimated the ancient civilizations of the Aztecs and the Incas, and carried out horrific atrocities in their pursuit of gold and glory. In Conquistadores, Mexican historian Fernando Cervantes cuts through the layers of myth and fiction to immerse the reader in the world of the late-medieval imperialist. It is a world as unfamiliar to us as the Indigenous peoples of the New World were to the conquistadores themselves. Drawing upon a wide range of sources including diaries, letters, chronicles and treatises, Cervantes reframes the story of the Spanish conquest of the New World, set against the political and intellectual landscape from which its main actors emerged. At the heart of the story are the conquistadores, whose epic ambitions and moral contradictions defined an era. From Columbus to Cortés, Pizarro and beyond, the explorers we think we know come alive in this thought-provoking and illuminating account of a period that irrevocably altered the course of world history. © Fernando Cervantes 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Fernando Cervantes (Author), Luis Soto (Narrator)
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Incas. Los indígenas de Sudamérica I
Esta obra narra cómo el imperio incaico, a pesar de innumerables estudios realizados hasta ahora, ha conservado celosamente bajo sus edificaciones los misterios del origen de su civilización. Este material contribuye al conocimiento y entendimiento de esta cultura sudamericana, que forma parte importante en la historia del mundo antiguo.
Mariana Riva Palacio (Author), Patricia Velasco (Narrator)
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Ópatas, tarahumaras, yaquis y seris. Los indígenas de Aridoamérica
Hasta hace poco más de ciento cincuenta años, el territorio norte de México se extendía miles de kilómetros más allá de su actual frontera con los Estados Unidos. En esa enorme región, conocida como Aridoamérica, florecieron muchos y variados grupos indígenas, antes de que los conquistadores llegaran a esta parte del continente americano. Muchos pueblos desaparecieron, pero otros resistieron el paso del tiempo, la pobreza, la violencia y las enfermedades. Lo que sabemos sobre su vida y sus costumbres es resultado de los descubrimientos arqueológicos y de las crónicas de los primeros religiosos y militares españoles que entraron en contacto con ellos.
Lourdes Aguilar Salas (Author), Rodrigo Llop (Narrator)
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Mexicas. Los indígenas de Mesoamérica II
Desde Aztlán emigró un pueblo guiado por Huitzilopochtli, el cual fundó la capital de un gran imperio: México-Tenochtitlán. Este tema, aunado al de las características especiales de la cultura, costumbres, organización, etc., hacen de esta obra una pieza inigualable. Este material contribuye al conocimiento y entendimiento de una cultura fundamental para comprender la historia antigua de México.
José Rubén Romero (Author), Rafael Serrano (Narrator)
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Teotihuacanos, toltecas y tarascos. Los indígenas de Mesoamérica I
Mesoamérica era una extensa área cultural que abarco un periodo de más de cuatro milenios, en el que mientras algunas civilizaciones alcanzaban su esplendor, otras llegaron a su más profunda decadencia. Los pueblos mesoamericanos creían que antes de ellos habían existido cuatro eras o soles. Para ellos el quinto y último sol, en el que vivían, había comenzado en Teotihuacán. La evolución de estos pueblos inicia con el desarrollo de la agricultura, la urbanización de las ciudades, además de la invención de varios sistemas de escritura y de complejos calendarios. Los teotihuacanos, toltecas y tarascos ocuparon el centro del valle de México, el estado de Hidalgo y Michoacán, y dejaron una herencia artística que hoy en día es considerada patrimonio de la humanidad.
Miguel Pastrana (Author), Carlos Zertuche (Narrator)
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Hernán Cortés: Encuentro y conquista
Hernán Cortés y Motecuzoma protagonizaron el choque de culturas más trascendente de la historia de la humanidad. Todo en la historia del mundo moderno es producto de ese encuentro y esa conquista. 'Toda nuestra historia se integra en Hernán Cortés. Odiarlo no nos ha servido y no ha resuelto nada. Amarlo no es necesario. Aceptarlo e integrarlo en nuestro pasado, como el ser humano que es, con aciertos y fracasos, luces y sombras, es fundamental. No es ángel o demonio. Es simplemente Hernán Cortés, el hombre sin el cual no seríamos lo que somos.' Juan Miguel Zunzunegui aborda la figura de Hernán Cortés y el acontecimiento de la conquista desde una perspectiva crítica y polémica: rechaza la idea maniquea de los buenos y los malos; desmonta el mito de un Hernán Cortés saqueador, asesino y destructor, frente a un Cortés culto, amante del mestizaje y del sincretismo; sitúa el evento de la conquista en un contexto mundial, que mucho tiene que ver con la historia de Europa y Oriente; y rastrea los lazos y las coincidencias entre las culturas religiosas indígena y cristiana, en un apasionante relato místico sobre México.
Juan Miguel Zunzunegui (Author), Juan Miguel Zunzunegui (Narrator)
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Brought to you by Penguin. A captivating new book – from the winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for Into the Silence – that illuminates Colombia's complex past, present, and future through the story of the great Río Magdalena. Travellers often become enchanted with the first country that captures their hearts and gives them license to be free. For Wade Davis, it was Colombia. In this masterful new book, he revisits the mighty Magdalena, the river that made possible the nation. Along the way, he finds a people who have overcome years of conflict precisely because of their character, informed by an enduring spirit of place, and a deep love of a land that is home to the greatest ecological and geographical diversity on the planet. Only in Colombia can a traveller wash ashore in a coastal desert, follow waterways through wetlands as wide as the sky, ascend narrow tracks through dense tropical forests, and reach verdant Andean valleys rising to soaring ice-clad summits. Both a corridor of commerce and a fountain of culture, the wellspring of Colombian music, literature, poetry and prayer, the Magdalena has served in dark times as the graveyard of the nation. And yet, always, it returns as a river of life. At once an absorbing adventure and an inspiring tale of hope and redemption, Magdalena gives us a rare, kaleidoscopic picture of a nation on the verge of a new period of peace. Braiding together memoir, history, and journalism, Wade Davis tells the story of the country's most magnificent river, and in doing so, tells the epic story of Colombia. © Wade Davis 2020 (P) Penguin Audio 2020
Wade Davis (Author), Wade Davis, Xandra Uribe (Narrator)
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Inca Apocalypse: The Spanish Conquest and the Transformation of the Andean World
Previous accounts of the fall of the Inca empire have played up the importance of the events of one violent day in November 1532 at the highland Andean town of Cajamarca. To some, the 'Cajamarca miracle'-in which Francisco Pizarro and a small contingent of Spaniards captured an Inca who led an army numbering in the tens of thousands-demonstrated the intervention of divine providence. To others, the outcome was simply the result of European technological and immunological superiority. Inca Apocalypse develops a new perspective on the Spanish invasion and transformation of the Inca realm. R. Alan Covey's sweeping narrative traces the origins of the Inca and Spanish empires, identifying how Andean and Iberian beliefs about the world's end shaped the collision of the two civilizations. Rather than a decisive victory on the field at Cajamarca, the Spanish conquest was an uncertain, disruptive process that reshaped the worldviews of those on each side of the conflict. The survivors built colonial Peru, a new society that never forgot the Inca imperial legacy or the enduring supernatural power of the Andean landscape. Covey's rich new history, based on the latest archaeological and historical evidence, illuminates mysteries that still surround the last days of the largest empire in the pre-Columbian Americas.
R. Alan Covey (Author), Gary Tiedemann (Narrator)
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Mysteries of the Tayos Caves: The Lost Civilizations Where the Andes Meet the Amazon
A detailed examination of the controversial expeditions to the Tayos Cave complex in Ecuador and the treasures glimpsed in its depths • Reconstructs the expeditions from the 1960s and '70s, including the Mormon Church's search for lost tablets, Stanley Hall's quest with Neil Armstrong, and sightings of a metal library, books of gold, copper plates, and a quartz sarcophagus • Explores connections to Atlantis, Ancient Astronauts, and the Hollow Earth theory and the possibility of tunnel networks that extend from the Rocky Mountains to Patagonia The Cuevas de los Tayos is a cavern complex in the Amazon rain forest of Ecuador. Named for the tayos, the oil birds that reside within them, these caves have countless enigmas connected with them, from the discovery of inexplicable architectural details, to claims of curses and treasures, to dangerous encounters with the indigenous people, the Shuar, for whom the caves are sacred. Sharing his more than 30 years of research into the Tayos Caves as well as his own explorations, Alex Chionetti examines the legends and mysteries associated with this site and the explorers who have ventured within. He details the discovery of the Tayos Cave complex by Hungarian explorer Janos Juan Moricz in the 1960s, including Moricz's claims of finding a metal library with books of gold. Exploring the oral tradition of the Shuar, he explains how this region was the possible origin of Incan culture and the legend of El Dorado. The author shares his own dangerous explorations within the Tayos Caves, and, drawing on unpublished interviews with speleologist Julio Goyén Aguado, he reconstructs the expeditions of the 1960s and '70s, revealing the Mormon Church's search for lost tablets, a British army incursion, and sightings of paintings, gold statues and skeletons, copper plates, and a quartz sarcophagus--treasures akin to the Crespi treasure. The author also shares details from Stanley Hall's suspicious expedition in 1976, which included astronaut Neil Armstrong. Investigating the lost civilizations behind the Tayos treasures, Chionetti explores the possible connections to Atlantis, aliens, Ancient Astronauts, and the Hollow Earth theory; the caves' links with hermetic societies; and claims of tunnel networks that extend thousands of miles through both American continents, from the Rocky Mountains to Patagonia. Sharing a real-life adventure story wilder than an Indiana Jones plot, the author shows that Earth's ancient past has many secrets waiting to be uncovered.
Alex Chionetti (Author), Luke Bob Robinson, Luke Robinson (Narrator)
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In a career defined by an allegiance to the truth, Charles Bowden's reporting continually unearthed the gritty realities behind high-profile hype, including the doomed War on Drugs. His daring expeditions to Ciudad Juárez, which resulted in such books as his bestseller Murder City, left him with haunting images of ruthless drug lords and their prey. In Jericho, an unpublished work brought to light after Bowden's death in 2014, he captures the monumental corruption and addiction to power that fuel Mexico's drug cartels-and that have fueled much of humanity's suffering throughout the ages. Interspersed with scenes from the battle of the walled city of Jericho, which in Bowden's eyes is not a story of inspiring strength but of bloodthirsty plunder, the world of El Sicario ('the hitman') unfolds in brutal detail. Bucolic settings such as the Falcon International Reservoir become the site of an unsolved murder as Bowden examines why the high murder rate in Juárez has yet to spill across the border. Yet, recalling his younger days in Louisiana and retracing the atrocities of racism in America, Bowden reveals a history where greed knows no borders, while undaunted voices (including his own) relentlessly expose its perpetrators.
Charles Bowden (Author), Paul Heitsch (Narrator)
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