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Author: Rosana de Andrés
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Published: 1992
Total Pages: 176
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DOWNLOAD EBOOKCristóbal Colón y el descubrimiento de América / Antonio Romeu de Armas. - Cristobal Colón escritor / Consuelo Varela. - Archivo General de Indias / Rosario Parra. - Las nuevas tecnologías y la historia del Nuevo Mundo / Pedro González. - Catálogo.
Author: Rainer H. Goetz
Publisher: McFarland
Published: 2014-01-10
Total Pages: 234
ISBN-13: 0786451351
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Spanish language has a long and rich history, from its prehistoric roots to its position today as the mother tongue of nearly 400 million inhabitants of 21 countries. How the language originated, how it evolved, and how it is spoken today around the world makes for a fascinating story that greatly enhances the study of written and spoken Spanish. This Spanish-language text covers the history of Spanish from its pre-Roman and Latin roots to its standardized form and its many regional variations. Along the way, discussion covers the spread of Latin on the Iberian Peninsula, the development of romance dialects due to a number of sociolinguistic influences, and the process of creating a standard variety of Spanish. It concludes with a discussion of the origin and the range of dialects that are spoken across the vast geographical area that forms the Spanish-speaking world. Details of pronunciation, spelling, grammar, and vocabulary are explained in their historical context, giving the student of Spanish a deeper understanding of the language as a whole. Perfect for students of Spanish as well as Spanish-speaking readers seeking to expand their general knowledge of the language, this book also includes a glossary of basic linguistic terms discussed in the text. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here. La lengua espanola tiene una rica y larga historia, desde sus raices prehistoricas hasta su estado actual como la lengua materna de casi 400 millones de habitantes en 21 paises. El como se origino, como evoluciono, y como se habla hoy en dia alrededor del mundo contribuye a una historia fascinante que complementa el estudio del espanol escrito y hablado. El presente texto, en lengua espanola, trata la historia del espanol desde sus raices prerromanas y latinas hasta su forma estandarizada y sus multiples variantes regionales. A lo largo de la narrativa se cubre la expansion del latin en la Peninsula Iberica, el desarrollo de los dialectos romances debido a una serie de influencias de tipo sociolinguistico, y el proceso de crear una variante estandar del espanol. El libro concluye con una discusion de los origenes y de la variedad de dialectos que se hablan en la vasta zona geografica que comprende el mundo hispanohablante. Los pormenores de la pronunciacion, la ortografia, la gramatica, y el vocabulario se explican dentro de su contexto historico, y proporcionan al estudiante del espanol un entendimiento mas profundo de la lengua en su totalidad. El libro es perfectamente adecuado para los estudiantes del espanol tanto como para otros lectores hispanohablantes que desean aumentar sus conocimientos de la lengua, e incluye tambien un glosario de los terminos linguisticos elementales que se tratan en el texto. Instructors considering this book for use in a course may request an examination copy here.
Author: Louis-Jean Calvet
Publisher: Polity
Published: 2006-06-23
Total Pages: 305
ISBN-13: 0745629563
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThere are around 5,000 languages spoken across the world today, but the languages that coexist in our multilingual world have varied functions and fulfil various roles. Some are spoken by small groups, a village or a tribe; others, much less numerous, are spoken by hundreds of millions of speakers. Certain languages, like English, French and Chinese, are highly valued, while others are largely ignored. Even if all languages are equal in the eyes of the linguist, the world’s languages are in fact fundamentally unequal. All languages do not have the same value, and their inequality is at the heart of the way they are organized across the world. In this major book Louis-Jean Calvet, one of the foremost sociolinguists working today, develops an ecological approach to language in order to analyse the changing structure of the world language system. The ecological approach to language begins from actual linguistic practices and studies the relations between these practices and their social, political and economic environment. The practices which constitute languages, on the one hand, and their environment, on the other, form a linguistic ecosystem in which languages coexist, multiply and influence one another. Using a rich panoply of examples from across the world, Calvet elaborates the ecological approach and shows how it can shed light on the changing forms of language use in the world today. This path-breaking book will be of great value to students and scholars in linguistics and sociolinguistics and to anyone concerned with the fate of languages in our increasingly globalized world.
Author: William D. Phillips
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 1992
Total Pages: 342
ISBN-13: 9780521446525
DOWNLOAD EBOOKWhen Columbus was born in the mid-fifteenth century, Europe was largely isolated from the rest of the Old World - Africa and Asia - and ignorant of the existence of the world of the Western Hemisphere. The voyages of Christopher Columbus opened a period of European exploration and empire building that breached the boundaries of those isolated worlds and changed the course of human history. This book describes the life and times of Christopher Columbus on the 500th aniversary of his first voyage across the Atlantic Ocean in 1492. Since ancient times, Europeans had dreamed of discovering new routes to the untold riches of Asia and the Far East, what set Columbus apart from these explorers was his single-minded dedication to finding official support to make that dream a reality. More than a simple description of the man, this new book places Columbus in a very broad context of European and world history. Columbus's story is not just the story of one man's rise and fall. Seen in its broader context, his life becomes a prism reflecting the broad range of human experience for the past five hundred years. Respected historians of medieval Spain and early America, the authors examine Columbus's quest for funds, first in Portugal and then in Spain, where he finally won royal backing for his scheme. Through his successful voyage in 1492 and three subsequent journeys to the new world Columbus reached the pinnacle of fame and wealth, and yet he eventually lost royal support through his own failings. William and Carla Rahn Phillips discuss the reasons for this fall and describe the empire created by the Spaniards in the lands across the ocean, even though neither they, nor anyone else in Europe, know precisely where or what those lands were. In examining the birth of a new world, this book reveals much about the times that produced these intrepid explorers.
Author: Christopher Columbus
Publisher: Wipf and Stock Publishers
Published: 2004-04-09
Total Pages: 435
ISBN-13: 1592446485
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristopher Columbus returned to Europe in the final days of 1500, ending his third voyage to the Indies not in triumph but in chains. Seeking to justify his actions and protect his rights, he began to compile biblical texts and excerpts from patristic writings and medieval theology in a manuscript known as the Book of Prophecies. This unprecedented collection was designed to support his vision of the discovery of the Indies as an important event in the process of human salvation - a first step toward the liberation of Jerusalem and the Holy Land from Muslim domination. This work is part of a twelve-volume series produced by U.C.L.A.'s Center for Medieval and Renaissance Studies which involved the collaboration of some forty scholars over the course of fourteen years. In this volume of the series, Roberto Rusconi has written a complete historical introduction to the Book of Prophecies, describing the manuscript's history and analyzing its principal themes. His edition of the documents, the only modern one, includes a complete critical apparatus and detailed commentary, while the facing-page English translations allow Columbus's work to be appreciated by the general public and scholars alike.
Author: Rubén Turienzo
Publisher: Editorial Almuzara
Published: 2010-02
Total Pages: 291
ISBN-13: 8483563827
DOWNLOAD EBOOKRubén Turienzo crea un nuevo modelo de influencia social para renovar la gestión empresarial y generar soluciones prácticas y efectivas.
Author: Margarita Zamora
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-04-28
Total Pages: 263
ISBN-13: 0520913949
DOWNLOAD EBOOKChristopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis of their textual problems and ideological implications. Her comprehensive study takes into account the newly discovered "Libro Copiador," which includes previously unknown letters from Columbus to the Crown. Zamora examines those aspects of the texts that have caused the most anxiety and disagreement among scholars—questions concerning Columbus's destination, the authenticity and authority of the texts attributed to him, Las Casas's editorial role, and Columbus's views on the Indians. In doing so she opens up the vast cultural context of the Discovery. Exploring the ways in which the first images of America as seen through European eyes both represented and helped shape the Discovery, she maps the inception and growth of a discourse that was to dominate the colonizing of the New World. 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 1993. Christopher Columbus authored over a hundred documents, many of them letters giving testimony on the Discovery to Isabela and Ferdinand. In this first book in English to focus specifically on these writings, Margarita Zamora offers an original analysis of
Author: Jesús Delgado
Publisher: Bubok
Published: 2012-12-16
Total Pages: 118
ISBN-13: 8468630926
DOWNLOAD EBOOKVer Videotrailer Cristóbal Colón, el genovés, el catalán, el gallego, el portugués, el israelita....Nadie sabe con exactitud de donde vino y por qué, si bien sus contemporáneos están identificados. A tal desconocido los Reyes Católicos le concedieron títulos, lo nombraron virrey y le entregaron barcos, hombres y dinero.¿Que se sabe de Cristóbal Colón. Conocemos la historia pero, ¿qué podemos averiguar de él por medios de sus documentos autógrafos Cada año, aparecen nuevos datos que incluso los propios historiadores ponen en duda. Ante esta situación, 519 años después del Descubrimiento y utilizando las técnicas de la policia científica de l siglo XXI, Jesús Delgado ha abierto una investigación para determinar el origen de Colón, su verdadera identidad y los motivos por los que fue ocultada. Siguiendo el protocolo policial se analizan los datos históricos, médicos, familiares, de amigos y la escritura de los documentos del Almirante. Los resultados aportan conclusiones inéditas hasta la fecha. Sin duda un libro apasionante que no dejará indiferente a nadie.
Author: Laurence de Looze
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
Published: 2016-01-01
Total Pages: 285
ISBN-13: 1442628537
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThe Letter and the Cosmos is a sharp and entertaining examination of how languages, letterforms, orthography, and writing tools have reflected our hidden obsession with the alphabet,
Author: Fredi Chiappelli
Publisher: Univ of California Press
Published: 2023-12-22
Total Pages: 571
ISBN-13: 0520348125
DOWNLOAD EBOOKThis 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 1976. 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
