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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 512 páginas
PVP: 22,45 €
ISBN 978-1-78022-617-0
EAN 9781780226170
Simon Bolivar's life makes for one of history's most dramatic canvases, a colossal narrative filled with adventure and disaster, victory and defeat. This is the story not just of an extraordinary man but of the liberation of a continent. A larger-than-life figure from a tumultuous age, Bolivar ignited a revolution, liberated six countries from Spanish ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 336 páginas
PVP: 27,25 €
ISBN 978-0-300-16560-9
EAN 9780300165609
A knowledgeable appreciation of a complex, vital South American giant, destined to be one of the world's premier economic powersExperts believe that Brazil, the world's fifth largest country and its seventh largest economy, will be one of the most important global powers by the year 2030. Yet far more attention has been paid to the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 336 páginas
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-1-137-27897-5
EAN 9781137278975
A critical look at how Haiti has fared after the catastrophic earthquake, blending together history, politics, and the dramatic struggles of the Haitian peopleIn the aftermath of the devastating 7.0 earthquake that hit Haiti in 2010, there was an outpouring of support and aid from countries around the world. Yet, two years after the quake, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 176 páginas
PVP: 19,15 €
ISBN 978-0-7453-3307-6
EAN 9780745333076
This is a political biography of one of the 20th century's most emblematic left-wing figures - Salvador Allende, who was president of Chile until he was ousted by General Pinochet in a US-supported coup in 1973. Victor Figueroa Clark guides us through Allende's life and political project, answering some of the most frequently asked questions. ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 263 páginas
PVP: 15,70 €
ISBN 978-0-374-53393-9
EAN 9780374533939
Review Quotes:"It is very difficult to summarize "Oblivion" without betraying it, because, like all great works, it is many things at once. To say that it is a heartrending memoir of the author's family and father--who was murdered by a hired assassin--is true, but paltry and infinitesimal, because the book is also a moving immersion ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 400 páginas
PVP: 78,00 €
ISBN 978-0-8047-8865-6
EAN 9780804788656
After the conquest of Mexico, colonial authorities attempted to enforce Christian beliefs among indigenous peoples-a project they envisioned as spiritual warfare. The Invisible War assesses this immense but dislocated project by examining all known efforts in Central Mexico to obliterate native devotions of Mesoamerican origin between the 1530s and the late eighteenth century. The author's ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,20 €
ISBN 978-0-14-311933-3
EAN 9780143119333
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 216 páginas
PVP: 23,80 €
ISBN 978-1-4051-9641-3
EAN 9781405196413
Spaniards in the Colonial Empire traces the privileges, prejudices, and conflicts between American-born and European-born Spaniards, within the Spanish colonies in the Americas from the sixteenth to early nineteenth centuries. Covers three centuries of Spanish colonial power, beginning in the sixteenth century Explores social tension between creole and peninsular factions, connecting this friction with later ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 560 páginas
PVP: 18,65 €
ISBN 978-0-307-27824-1
EAN 9780307278241
A deeply engaging new history of how European settlements in the post-Colombian Americas shaped the world, from the bestselling author of 1491. Presenting the latest research by biologists, anthropologists, archaeologists, and historians, Mann shows how the post-Columbian network of ecological and economic exchange fostered the rise of Europe, devastated imperial China, convulsed Africa, and for ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 408 páginas
PVP: 33,50 €
ISBN 978-0-226-73362-3
EAN 9780226733623
Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish-American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission's participants referred to the transfer of scientific ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 528 páginas
PVP: 14,50 €
ISBN 978-1-84739-459-0
EAN 9781847394590
America's secret war in the Caribbean during the Cold War is revealed as never before in this riveting story of the machinations and blunders of superpowers, and the daring of the mavericks who took them on. During the presidencies of Eisenhower, Kennedy and Johnson, the Caribbean was in crisis, while the United States and the ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura · 600 páginas
PVP: 44,65 €
ISBN 978-0-226-32281-0
EAN 9780226322810
The fortunes of the late nineteenth century's imperial and industrial powers depended on a single raw material rubber with only one source: the Amazon basin. And so began the scramble for the Amazon a decades-long conflict that found Britain, France, Belgium, and the United States fighting with and against the new nations of Peru, Bolivia, ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 200 páginas
PVP: 15,95 €
ISBN 978-0-87286-517-4
EAN 9780872865174
An American journalist delves into the grim, relentless drug war between Mexico and the United States and advocates for legalization as the only answer to stop the violence.An intrepid California-based journalist who risked his life to pursue the interviews he records with Mexican officials and victims here, Gibler (Mexico Unconquered) recounts an endless litany of ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda
PVP: 16,90 €
ISBN 978-0-9804292-3-7
EAN 9780980429237
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 23,40 €
ISBN 978-0-465-01723-2
EAN 9780465017232
In the early eighteenth century, European thinkers were torn between Descartes' notion that the earth was spherical and Newton's contention that it was flattened at the poles. Eager to reap the great military and imperial advantages of knowing the earth's exact shape, France and Spain sent an expedition of scientists and naval officers to colonial ...
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After 500 years of authoritarian rule, Mexico has a burgeoning middle class and a functioning, if creaky, representative democracy, but its civil society remains perilously weak. Indeed, Castaneda (Politics and Latin American Studies/New York Univ.; Ex Mex: From Migrants to Immigrants, 2008, etc.) argues, the very cultural traits which may have permitted the people to ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa dura
PVP: 26,00 €
ISBN 978-1-84901-354-3
EAN 9781849013543
Simon Bolivar was the archetypal romantic revolutionary. Born into privilege and nurtured in the Rousseau's philosophy of the Homme Sauvage, it was not until the young colonial visited Europe that the taper of revolution was lit that sent the young man on a death-defying quest to fight for the people of his homeland, and eventually ...
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Libro encuadernado en tapa blanda · 376 páginas
PVP: 27,85 €
ISBN 978-0-521-18372-7
EAN 9780521183727
In its first Spanish edition, Herbert Klein's A Concise History of Bolivia won immediate acceptance within Bolivia as the new standard history of this important nation. Surveying Bolivia's economic, social, cultural and political evolution from the arrival of early man in the Andes to the present, this current version brings the history of this society ...
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