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Suggesting that better understanding of conflicts between Anglo and Latin America can come from the study of their contrasting popular fictions, the author compares the traditional attachment in Latin America to government by a strong man—a caudillo—to the diametrically opposed expansionist frontier ideology of the United States—the cowboy—who makes space safe for Anglo colonization.

Reuni n de trabajos, fruto del di logo y de las controversias que genera el estudio de fen menos culturales concretos entre los historiadores del mundo hisp nico de la Edad Moderna: el encuentro y simbiosis intelectual de dos mundos distantes y pr ximos a la vez.

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La quatrième de couverture indique : "Violante de Aragón, reina de Castilla por su matrimonio con Alfonso X el Sabio, es una de las figuras femeninas más interesantes, y más desconocidas, de la Edad Media hispana. Hija de Jaime I de Aragón y de Violante de Hungría, y madre de Sancho IV de Castilla, su papel fue crucial en momentos claves de la política del reino. Mientras que de Alfonso X se han escrito varias biografías, de Violante no se ha escrito ninguna. Esta es la primera biografía dedicada a ella. Basada en fuentes documentales en buena parte inéditas, se analiza su figura...