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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 1991.
Though women played an integral role in the conquest of the New World, little has been written about their contributions. This Spanish-language work examines the lives and deeds of women who influenced the course of history in the Americas some 500 years ago. Covered in detail are the lives of Maria de Toledo, first woman governor in America; Isabel de Bobadilla, governor of Cuba and instrumental in the Spanish expedition to Florida; Ana Francisca de Borja, governor of Peru and a military leader; Beatriz de la Cueva, governor of Guatemala and a political leader; Maria de Penalosa, governor of Nicaragua and a military strategist; Isabel Barreto y Quiros, first and only woman admiral of the Sp...
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Includes entries for maps and atlases.
Los que no volvieron registra los nombres y las circunstancias de las muertes de cada uno de los hombres que ofrendaron su vida durante la Guerra del Pacífico, haciendo énfasis en las muertes que habitualmente no son contadas en las estadísticas: los suicidios, asesinatos, fusilamientos, accidentes, muertes presuntas y los fallecidos por diversas enfermedades o epidemias, causadas por la incursión en territorios desconocidos e inhóspitos. La investigación rigurosa, exhaustiva y ordenada de forma cronológica permite al lector verificar las listas de nombres que, con crudeza, convierten las cifras y porcentajes en personas. Se trata de una obra única para conocimiento de quienes, de una u otra forma, quieran saber cómo se moría y como se olvidaba a un patriota. .
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