Cartas de Francisco de Asís desde el exilio
Cartas de Francisco de Asís desde el exilio

Author: José Antonio Merino Abad

Publisher: PPC Editorial

Published: 2014-05-23

Total Pages: 90

ISBN-13: 8428827400

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Cartas inspiradas en Francisco de Asís donde se encuentran mensajes, expresiones y pensamientos que no aparecen explícitamente en sus escritos, pero sí están implícitos. Todo un mensaje franciscano dirigido a la diversidad de gentes que pueblan nuestro mundo.

San francisco de Asís
San francisco de Asís

Author: Éloi Leclerc

Publisher:

Published: 2008-03

Total Pages: 168

ISBN-13: 9788429317510

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«En un mundo violento, erizado de muros y excavado con fosos, el universo de Francisco de Asís carecía de torreones y murallas. Pobre de bienes y de poder, estaba en paz con todos, vivía como hermano de los seres, y a todos ellos dirigía una mirada llena de respeto... Sus ojos habían llegado a ser maravillosamente humanos... Su horizonte no era la cristiandad de su tiempo, con sus fronteras que defender, sino Jesucristo, a quien amar, y el ser humano a quien salvar». Eso fue lo que llevó a Francisco más allá de las fronteras de la cristiandad. En plena cruzada, partió hacia Oriente para encontrarse con quienes no pensaban como él y mantuvo varias entrevistas con el sultán Melik el-Kamil. Su actitud desinteresada logró tender un puente entre Occidente y Oriente. Ciertamente fue un gran momento en la historia de la humanidad: en pleno conflicto, una mano tendida al enemigo de los cruzados. Este espíritu atraviesa el libro San Francisco de Asís. Exilio y ternura. En medio de todas las tensiones, Éloi Leclerc sobrepasa el relato de los acontecimientos para revelar la fuerza del Evangelio en la vida de un ser humano y en los conflictos del mundo. Traducido a varias lenguas, San Francisco de Asís. Exilio y ternura es una nueva edición, revisada por el autor. ÉLOI LECLERC, religioso franciscano, figura entre los autores espirituales contemporáneos más importantes. Entre sus publicaciones, esta misma Editorial ha traducido: El reino escondido (20002): El Dios mayor (1997): El sol sale sobre Asís (20052): El pueblo de Dios en la noche (20052) e «Id a Galilea». Al encuentro del Cristo pascual (2006).

Mexico at the World's Fairs
Mexico at the World's Fairs

Author: Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo

Publisher: Univ of California Press

Published: 2024-06-12

Total Pages: 391

ISBN-13: 0520378091

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This intriguing study of Mexico's participation in world's fairs from 1889 to 1929 explores Mexico's self-presentation at these fairs as a reflection of the country's drive toward nationalization and a modernized image. Mauricio Tenorio-Trillo contrasts Mexico's presence at the 1889 Paris fair—where its display was the largest and most expensive Mexico has ever mounted—with Mexico's presence after the 1910 Mexican Revolution at fairs in Rio de Janeiro in 1922 and Seville in 1929. Rather than seeing the revolution as a sharp break, Tenorio-Trillo points to important continuities between the pre- and post-revolution periods. He also discusses how, internationally, the character of world's fairs was radically transformed during this time, from the Eiffel Tower prototype, encapsulating a wondrous symbolic universe, to the Disneyland model of commodified entertainment. Drawing on cultural, intellectual, urban, literary, social, and art histories, Tenorio-Trillo's thorough and imaginative study presents a broad cultural history of Mexico from 1880 to 1930, set within the context of the origins of Western nationalism, cosmopolitanism, and modernism. This title is part of UC Press's Voices Revived program, which commemorates University of California Press’s mission to seek out and cultivate the brightest minds and give them voice, reach, and impact. Drawing on a backlist dating to 1893, Voices Revived makes high-quality, peer-reviewed scholarship accessible once again using print-on-demand technology. This title was originally published in 1997.

The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery
The 1812 Aponte Rebellion in Cuba and the Struggle against Atlantic Slavery

Author: Matt D. Childs

Publisher: Univ of North Carolina Press

Published: 2009-01-05

Total Pages: 316

ISBN-13: 0807877417

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In 1812 a series of revolts known collectively as the Aponte Rebellion erupted across the island of Cuba, comprising one of the largest and most important slave insurrections in Caribbean history. Matt Childs provides the first in-depth analysis of the rebellion, situating it in local, colonial, imperial, and Atlantic World contexts. Childs explains how slaves and free people of color responded to the nineteenth-century "sugar boom" in the Spanish colony by planning a rebellion against racial slavery and plantation agriculture. Striking alliances among free people of color and slaves, blacks and mulattoes, Africans and Creoles, and rural and urban populations, rebels were prompted to act by a widespread belief in rumors promising that emancipation was near. Taking further inspiration from the 1791 Haitian Revolution, rebels sought to destroy slavery in Cuba and perhaps even end Spanish rule. By comparing his findings to studies of slave insurrections in Brazil, Haiti, the British Caribbean, and the United States, Childs places the rebellion within the wider story of Atlantic World revolution and political change. The book also features a biographical table, constructed by Childs, of the more than 350 people investigated for their involvement in the rebellion, 34 of whom were executed.