History of America from Its Most Remote Times to Our Days, Volume I

Ortega Rubio, Juan, 1845-1921Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

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1.5M words
Chapters
152

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Foreign Language Books World History Historical ReappraisalPolitical ChangeAmerican HistoryIndependence MovementMulti-volume HistoryAcademic StudyContinental PanoramaCultural FusionColonial AmericaSpanish-Language Sources

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Historia de América desde sus tiempos más remotos hasta nuestros días, tomo IAuthor: Ortega Rubio, Juan, 1845-1921,Language: Spanish, Class: E011: History: America: America, Release Date: Sep 24, 2018

Editor's review

This is the first volume of a general history of the Americas by the Spanish scholar Juan Ortega Rubio, written in Spanish and released free of charge by Project Gutenberg as a public-domain historical document. Its value lies in presenting the narrative framework of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century Spanish-language scholarship on American history: it runs from the earliest times to the author's own era, covering pre-colonial indigenous societies, geographical discovery, conquest, and colonial institutions. For today's readers it serves both as a primary source for understanding the historiography of the Americas and as a firsthand sample of the Eurocentric perspective and prose style of the period. Readers should note its chronological limitations and not treat it as modern scholarly consensus. It suits Spanish-language readers, researchers of American history and historiography, and those interested in public-domain electronic texts. Reading it in electronic form alongside maps and reference works is recommended.

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  1. Begin with the table of contents and chapter introductions to grasp the book's chronological divisions and main narrative thread, then select key chapters to read.
  2. Keep an American map and a historical timeline at hand to cross-reference places and events mentioned in the book.
  3. Read it alongside a modern history of the Americas to compare differences in source selection and interpretive frameworks.

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Contents

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Is this book in Spanish? What language level is needed? Yes, the main text is in Spanish, and it is a public-domain ebook released by Project Gutenberg. Readers are advised to have intermediate or higher Spanish reading ability to handle the historical prose of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries; those with weaker Spanish can first use a dictionary or a parallel translation to grasp the framework, then return to the original.
As a work of the late nineteenth to early twentieth century, are its historical sources reliable? It reflects the historiographical views and source conditions of the author's time and still has reference value for today's research, but it should not be taken directly as modern consensus. Its judgments on archaeology, demography, and colonial history may be outdated; it is best read alongside modern scholarship and used as historiography and a primary source.
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About the author

Ortega Rubio, Juan, 1845-1921 Author

Juan Ortega Rubio (1845–1921) is a Spanish-language author about whom relatively little biographical information is available; his name is usually recorded in library catalogues as "Ortega Rubio, Juan." Public sources are limited, and apart from his birth and death years, his nationality, education, and professional career cannot be reliably confirmed. One work by him is held in the collection: volume I of Historia de América desde sus tiempos más remotos hasta nuestros días, a general history that traces the Americas from their earliest times to the author's own day. Judging from the title and the arrangement into volumes, he intended a systematic multi-volume account of American history, written in a chronological, source-compiling style and covering the period from pre-Columbian times to the modern era. Works of this kind were common in Spanish-language scholarship in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and offer later researchers a useful view of the historical understanding of that period.