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“…the new history? is now commonly used by historians. But what is the new history and how ?…”

“…La antigua Facultad de Medicina y Ciencias de la Universidad de Zaragoza, hoy Paraninfo y edificio emblemático de la capital, es objeto de atención en un libro que se compone de dos textos. Por una parte, Luis Franco Lahoz y Mariano Pemán Gavín, los arquitectos responsables de la renovación del edificio, ofrecen un denso estudio a modo de prólogo, en el que explican de forma sucinta su tarea. …”

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“…Rather than concentrating on the three principal divisions of colonial society—Indians, Europeans, and people of African origins—as is common in studies of these colonial societies, Schwartz examines the three minority groups of moriscos, conversos, and mestizos. …”

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