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The Buried Mirror

Reflections on Spain and the New World

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An edition of The Buried Mirror (1992)

The Buried Mirror

Reflections on Spain and the New World

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In his introduction to this passionate history of Spain and the Spanish-speaking peoples of the Americas, Carlos Fuentes asks the necessary question: What do we really have to celebrate on the five hundredth anniversary of Columbus's historic voyage to the New World? After all, the quincentennial of the "discovery of America" finds the Latin American republics in a state of deep crisis, with inflation, unemployment, and excessive foreign debt threatening their still precarious economic and political institutions. But Fuentes finds much consolation in an amazingly rich cultural heritage, one that has been created with "the greatest joy, the greatest gravity, and the greatest risk" and that lives in art, in literature, and above all in the vital societies of Central and South America.

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Mariner Books
Language
English
Pages
400

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Subjects

Civilization, Colonies, Kontinuität, Beeldvorming, Rezeption, Geschichte, Civilisation, Kultur, Kontinuita t., España, Civilización, Hispanos, Spanish colonies, Colonias, Civilizacion, Espana, Kontinuita˜t, Spain, history, New York Times reviewed, Spain, civilization, Spain, colonies, america, Latin america, civilization, Fiction (fictional works by one author)

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America, Latin America, Spain, USA, Espagne, Amérique latine, Lateinamerika, Hispanos, Amérique, Spanien
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Cover of: El espejo enterrado
El espejo enterrado
2002, Aguilar, Altea, Taurus, Alfaguara
in Spanish
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Cover of: The Buried Mirror
The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World
January 15, 1999, Mariner Books
Paperback in English
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Cover of: The Buried Mirror
The Buried Mirror: Reflections on Spain and the New World
June 1999, Peter Smith Pub Inc
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Cover of: El espejo enterrado
El espejo enterrado
1998, Taurus
in Spanish - 1. ed. en México: junio de 1998.
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El espejo enterrado
June 1995, Fondo de Cultura Economica, Mexico
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The Buried Mirror: Relfections on Spain and the New World
September 1993, Houghton Mifflin (P)
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The buried mirror: reflections on Spain and the New World
1992, Houghton Mifflin
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El espejo enterrado
1992, Fondo de Cultura Económica
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First Sentence

"On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus landed on a small island in the Western Hemisphere."

Table of Contents

Introduction
Part one : The virgin and the bull.
Sun and shadow
The conquest of Spain
The reconquest of Spain
1492 : the crucial year
Part two : The conflict of the gods.
The rise and fall of the Indian world
The conquest and reconquest of the New World
Part three : Children of La Mancha.
The age of empire
The century of gold
The baroque culture of the New World
The age of Goya
Toward independence
Part four : The price of freedom.
Simón Bolívar and José De San Martín
The time of tyrants
The culture of independence
Land and liberty
Part five : Unfinished business.
Latin America
Contemporary Spain
Hispanic U.S.A.
The monarchs of Spain
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Classifications

Library of Congress
DP48

The Physical Object

Format
Paperback
Pagination
399 p.
Number of pages
400
Dimensions
27 x x centimeters

ID Numbers

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OL7468678M
Internet Archive
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ISBN 13
9780395924990
OCLC/WorldCat
41086225
Library Thing
2358420
Wikidata
Q112978257
Goodreads
822438

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