In a country of disparate parts and of long, unbroken historical experience, there may be one dominant feature, a clue to the character of its regions. In Portugal the vine serves as this clue.The vine has been an important aspect of the Iberian landscape since prehistoric times, and farmers still use Roman methods of cultivation that have been adapted to regional physical conditions and to socioeconomic structure. Southern Portugal today is almost vineless, but in the north three ...

A land of long ago on the brink of tomorrow. That is the Algarve, the southernmost province of Portugal, a land that knew the Phoenicians, Carthaginians, Greeks, Romans, Visigoths, Moslems—and yet retained its own distinctive personality. In the 1950s it first felt the impact of industrialization, and from that situation the author developed this book.In presenting this descriptive geography of the Algarve, Dan Stanislawski offers no thesis, except that geographers, economists, pol...

In this book, Dan Stanislawski studies the geography of various small towns in one Mexican state. He discusses the factors—landscape, buildings, culture groups, and so forth—that create a unique personality for each of these towns.

Many map users have wondered why Portugal, sharing with Spain the Iberian Peninsula, ever became a separate nation. That question is answered with remarkable clarity by Dan Stanislawski. This book also presents an analysis of the factors that produce separate nations and offers a study of the evolution of national cultures generally, especially as they apply to Portugal.

La Historia general de las cosas de la Nueva España reúne doce libros (este presente volumen comprende los libros del 1 al 6). Los publicó en México el monje franciscano Bernardino de Sahagún entre 1540 y 1590. Trabajó a partir de entrevistas con informantes indígenas en Tlatelolco, Texcoco y Tenochtitlan.El mejor manuscrito que se conserva de la obra es el denominado Códice florentino, está en los archivos de la Biblioteca Laurenciana de Florencia. Es una copia de los textos cuya fuente o...