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Unlocking the Doors to the Worlds of Guaman Poma & His Nueva Corónica

Honoured by UNESCO’s Memory of the World designation, Felipe Guaman Poma de Ayala’s <em>Nueva corónica y buen gobierno</em> (1615) rewrites Andean history in accordance with the author’s goals of reforming Spanish colonial rule in the continent-spanning viceroyalty of Peru.

ISBN 9788763542708

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African Immigrants in Contemporary Spanish Texts

Around the turn of 21st Century, Spain welcomed more than six million foreigners, many of them from various parts of the African continent. How African immigrants represent themselves and are represented in contemporary Spanish texts is the subject of this interdisciplinary collection.

ISBN 9781472416346

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Magnificent and Beggar Land

Magnificent and Beggar Land is a powerful account of fast-changing dynamics in Angola, an important African state that is a key exporter of oil and diamonds and a growing power on the continent. Based on three years of research and extensive first-hand knowledge of Angola, it documents the rise of a major economy and its insertion in the international system since it emerged in 2002 from one of Africa’s longest and deadliest civil wars.

ISBN 9781849042840

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Juan de Mena de letrado a poeta

This book contains several studies reviewing the two facets of Juan de Mena's life as lawyer and poet. These contributions open up new lines of research on this important early-fifteenth-century Castilian writer and enrich some existing ones, studying Juan de Mena from different perspectives.

ISBN 9781855662605

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