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Han pasado 50 años del golpe del 24 de marzo de 1976, inicio de la dictadura militar presente hasta el 10 de diciembre de 1983, que dio comienzo el gobierno democrático de Raúl Alfonsín. Sin embargo, aun quedan temas vigentes como la violencia, la represion, si hubo guerra civil o genocidio, si es posible equiparar el terrorismo de la guerrilla con el terrorismo de Estado, el numero de desaparecidos y las victimas, la militancia popular, el apoyo civil de la dictadura, el impacto de la guerra de Malvinas y el final del autoritarismo. Otras cuestiones siguen levantando ampollas: ¿como definir el golpe y el gobierno posterior? ¿Fue una dictadura de seguridad nacional, militar o civico-militar? ¿Cuales fueron los distintos tipos de violencia?El golpe no sorprendio practicamente a nadie. Fue acompañado de un sentimiento mesianico que buscaba cambiar de forma irreversible la economia, el sistema institucional, la educacion, la cultura y la estructura social, gracias a que los militares se enfrentaron a una sociedad debil y desarticulada, frustrada con el gobierno peronista e incluso, en algunos casos, partidaria de cooperar con ellos. Los jefes de la dictadura mas sangrienta que conocio Argentina supieron destruir cuanto se puso a su alcance, pero fueron incapaces de reemplazarlo por algo nuevo. Este libro trata del golpe, la dictadura y la violencia que de forma omnipresente la acompaño.Carlos Malamud es catedratico emerito de Historia de America de la UNED e investigador principal de America Latina del Real Instituto Elcano. Es academico correspondiente de la Academia Nacional de la Historia de Argentina.

Viva una experiencia medieval en Ávila, en tiempo de los Reyes Católicos.A través del análisis de las Ordenanzas de Ávila, que los Reyes Católicos mandaron recopilar, nos adentramos en el periodo de mayor explendor que conocieron las tierras de Avila. Se describe el contexto historico y social, asi como el funcionamiento del Concejo municipal . Se han dedicado capitulos a los transportes, a las medidas y a las monedas de la epoca, asi como a las profesiones medievales. Finalmente se detallan las diferentes ordenanzas que regian la vida de la ciudad.

La historia de mi vida, de Gerónimo (1906), es el notable relato en primera persona del legendario líder chiricahua apache. Dictada a S. M. Barrett, superintendente de educación estadounidense, esta autobiografia da voz a una de las figuras indigenas mas celebres y, al mismo tiempo, mas incomprendidas del siglo XIX.Geronimo narra su infancia en las asperas tierras de lo que hoy son Arizona y Nuevo Mexico, describiendo las tradiciones apaches, los lazos familiares y las dificultades de la supervivencia. La historia cambia drasticamente cuando su familia es masacrada por soldados mexicanos, hecho que enciende su resistencia de por vida contra las fuerzas militares mexicanas y, mas tarde, estadounidenses. Detalla incursiones, batallas y estrategias empleadas para defender la libertad de su pueblo frente a probabilidades abrumadoras, presentandose no solo como guerrero, sino como un hombre que luchaba por la justicia, la supervivencia y la identidad cultural.El relato tambien explora sus creencias espirituales, visiones y rituales que guiaban la vida apache. Aunque reconoce las derrotas y su rendicion final en 1886, su voz permanece desafiante y orgullosa, cuestionando los estereotipos impuestos por los forasteros.Documento historico y testimonio personal a la vez, el libro ofrece una vision excepcional de la cultura apache, la violencia fronteriza y los costos de la expansion colonial. Sigue siendo una lectura fundamental para comprender la resistencia y la resiliencia de los pueblos indigenas de Norteamerica.

Desde el esplendor de las culturas prehispánicas hasta los profundos cambios que marcaron la conquista española, el nacimiento del Estado y las tensiones entre liberalismo y conservadurismo, este libro guia al lector a traves del vibrante y complejo devenir historico de Guatemala. En sus paginas desfilan imperios ancestrales, rebeliones, dictaduras y anhelos de libertad que desembocan en el largo conflicto armado del siglo XX y su feliz reconciliacion. Con estilo agil, su autora invita a comprender como un pequeño pais centroamericano ha forjado su identidad entre desafios, rupturas y esperanzas renovadas.Regina Wagner ha sido catedratica de Historia en las universidades del Valle de Guatemala, Rafael Landivar y Francisco Marroquin y es miembro de la Asociacion de Investigacion y Estudios Sociales y de la Academia de Geografia e Historia de Guatemala.

Facundo o civilización y barbarie (1845) es un ensayo biográfico-político que, a partir de la figura del caudillo Facundo Quiroga, disecciona el régimen de Juan Manuel de Rosas y las fracturas de la Argentina posindependiente. Sarmiento entrevera cronica, costumbrismo, geografia y una incipiente etnografia para explicar como el paisaje pampeano segun un marcado determinismo ambiental modela tipos sociales y practicas de poder. La prosa, de aliento romantico y polemico, alterna invectiva, hiperbole y cuadro de costumbres, al tiempo que organiza el relato bajo la celebre dicotomia civilizacion/barbarie que atraviesa su argumentacion. Nacido en San Juan en 1811, pedagogo, periodista y futuro presidente, Sarmiento escribio la obra durante su exilio chileno, publicandola por entregas en el diario El Progreso. Su formacion autodidacta, sus viajes por Europa y los Estados Unidos y su militancia liberal ilustrada alimentaron su fe en la escuela, la inmigracion y el ferrocarril como motores modernizadores, asi como su aversion al caudillismo que habia conocido de primera mano en las guerras civiles. Recomiendo Facundo como lectura imprescindible del canon rioplatense: obra poderosa y polemica, util para pensar nacion, violencia y modernizacion, siempre que se la aborde con espiritu critico y contextualizador.Quickie Classics resume obras atemporales con precision, preserva la voz del autor y mantiene la prosa clara, agil y legible: destilada, nunca diluida. Extras de la Edicion enriquecida: Introduccion · Sinopsis · Contexto historico · Biografia del autor · Analisis breve · 4 preguntas de reflexion · Notas editoriales.

Laura Diana Torres — conocida también como Diana Guerra — es uma joven aparentemente reservada y observadora. Diana está enamorada de Caio Vinícius, su amigo de la infancia y jefe, pero nunca tuvo el

Hacer un lugar en la agenda para el encuentro. Lle-gar a Floresta, compartir un té con algunas delicias y disponernos para la conversación. Se enciende el grabador y una pregunta dispara los recuerdos. Durante algunas horas una mujer trae al presente el cariño por sus padres, los paisajes de la infancia, el desamor y el amor. La militancia y la maternidad, las amenazas y el exilio. El ritual se repite durante varios domingos. Los recuerdos crecen y se traman con la reexion intelectual y la conviccion politica. En el devenir de las palabras y un carrete de fotografias se teje la semblanza de una vida, la de Dora Barrancos. Debora DAntonio y Karin Grammatico dialogaron con la historiadora feminista y dieron forma a este libro para dejar constancia de la intensa y facetada vida de esta singular gura anbia. Debora DAntonioHistoriadora. Doctora en Historia por la Universidad de Buenos Aires e investigado-ra del Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Cienticas y Tecnicas (CONICET). Enseña e investiga en la Facultad de Filosofia y Letras de esta universidad. Se ha especializado en el estudio de la actividad represiva del Estado en la historia argentina reciente y su cruce con los estudios de genero y sexualidades. Es directora junto a Valeria S. Pita de la coleccion Nueva Historia de las Mujeres en Argentina (Prometeo, 2023); autora del libro La prision en los años setenta. Historia, genero y politica (Biblos, 2016) y editora de Violencia, espionaje y represion estatal (Ima-go Mundi, 2018) y Deseo y represion. Sexualidad, Genero y Estado en la historia reciente argentina (Imago Mundi, 2015), entre otros. Karin GrammaticoHistoriadora. Magister en Investigacion his-torica por la Universidad de San Andres y Doctora en Estudios de Genero por la Uni-versidad de Buenos Aires. Enseña e investiga en la Universidad Nacional Arturo Jauretche cuestiones vinculadas al pasado reciente argentino con perspectiva de genero. Es autora de los libros Mujeres montoneras. Una historia de la Agrupacion Evita, 1973-1974 (Luxemburg, 2011); Cuando el feminismo era mala palabra. Algunas experiencias del feminismo porteño (Espacio Editorial, 2019), en (co)autoria con Monica Tarducci y Catalina Trebisacce, y Dora Barrancos. Material de Lectura. Vindictas, pensadoras feministas latinoamericanas (UNAM, 2022). Ha compilado junto a Mariela Marini y Wanda Wechsler Historia reciente, genero y clase trabajadora (Imago Mundi. 2018). Ambas integran el Grupo de Investigacion Generos, Historia y Politica en la Argentina Reciente del Instituto de Investigaciones de Estudios de Genero de la Facultad de Filosofia y Letras de la Universidad de Buenos Aires. Han (co)compilado y (co)editado juntas Historia, genero y politica en los 70 (Feminaria, 2005); De minifaldas, militancias y revoluciones. Exploraciones sobre los 70 en la Argentina (Luxemburg, 2009); Hilvanando historias. Mujeres y politica en el pasado reciente latinoamericano (Luxemburg, 2010); Historias de mujeres en la accion politica (Imago Mundi, 2019) y Tramas feministas al Sur (Madreselva, 2022). Son integrantes de la Asociacion Ar-gentina para la Investigacion de Historia de las Mujeres y Estudios de Genero (AAIHMEG).

Social transformations rarely emerge from legislation alone. Behind every expansion of rights, every labor reform, and every challenge to institutional power lies decades of grassroots organizing, strategic mobilization, and sustained pressure from activists whose names seldom appear in political histories. From Chartist petitioners demanding voting rights to anti-apartheid networks coordinating international boycotts, from tenants unions resisting evictions to environmental coalitions blocking dam construction, these movements redefined possibilities for collective action.This book examines how activists built organizations, framed demands, recruited participants, and navigated repression across two centuries of European social movements. Drawing on organizational archives, police surveillance files, personal correspondence, and movement publications, it analyzes the strategies, internal debates, and tactical innovations that enabled ordinary citizens to challenge entrenched power structures.Each chapter focuses on a specific movement, tracing its origins in localized grievances, examining how organizers developed shared analysis and collective identity, and analyzing tactics ranging from petition campaigns and strikes to civil disobedience and direct action. The narrative explores both successes and failures, examining why certain movements achieved legislative victories while others fragmented, how state repression shaped tactical choices, and what conditions enabled coalitions across class, gender, and ethnic divisions.

Historical narratives often center on celebrated leaders and well-documented movements, leaving countless individuals whose contributions shaped events in obscurity. Inventors whose patents were stolen, activists whose organizing work was credited to others, translators who enabled diplomatic breakthroughs, scientists denied recognition due to gender or ethnicity, and ordinary citizens whose resistance saved livesthese figures remain absent from textbooks despite their profound impact.This book recovers the stories of individuals systematically excluded from official histories across modern Europe. Drawing on archival documents, personal correspondence, and recently declassified records, it examines why certain contributions were minimized or erased and how institutional biases, political agendas, and social hierarchies determined whose work received recognition.The narrative spans multiple historical periods and contexts: women scientists whose research was published under male colleagues names, working-class organizers whose movements were later attributed to elite intellectuals, colonial subjects whose military service went unacknowledged, resistance members executed before liberation could vindicate their actions, and refugees whose cultural contributions were dismissed.Each chapter contextualizes individual stories within broader patterns of historical erasure. The book explores how Cold War politics, nationalist narratives, and academic conventions shaped collective memory, and examines ongoing efforts to recover these voices through oral histories, family archives, and community documentation projects.

It was the best-kept industrial secret in world history. The Porcelain Monopoly documents Europes desperate struggle to solve the mystery of White Gold. For centuries, China was the only source for the fragile material, which was more valuable than gold at European courts.We examine the espionage, the alchemy, and the greed that drove this trade. It is the story of a technological superiority that forced Europe into total economic dependence. Why did it take an imprisoned alchemist in Dresden to finally crack the secret?We analyze the effects of porcelain manufactories on the Industrial Revolution and how Meissen became the first high-tech location on the continent. Look into the kaiserlichen Brennofen of Jingdezhen and the secret labs of Bottger. A fascinating account of the longing for perfection and how the search for a material spurred modern world research. Knowledge was the most valuable cargo here.

Long before the EU, there was a network that dominated the North of Europewithout an army, only through contracts and ships. The Hanseatic Territory reveals the mechanics of a power based on trust and profit. We look behind the facades of the grand merchant houses and show the brutal reality of long-distance trade in the Middle Ages.It was a game of monopolies, pirates, and political intrigue. How did cities like Lubeck and Danzig manage to bring kings to their knees? This book is a search for traces in the archives and along the coasts of the Baltic Sea. We analyze the operating system of the first global marketplace and what we can still learn from these pioneers of capitalism today.A gripping account of a time when a merchants word weighed more than a knights sword. Discover how they managed to maintain a complex network of trade across diverse cultures and laws, and how their influence shaped the political map of Europe for centuries. Learn the secrets of their success and the reasons for their eventual decline. This is history as a high-stakes business thriller, proving that the most effective empire is the one you cant see on a map. Dive into the world of the Hanse and see the foundations of modern trade.

This nationally important book reveals the untold story of the Irish tricolour: its true origins, a forgotten heroine, and the emblems it replaced. For the first time, a fully referenced history corrects long-standing myths and slurs surrounding Irelands national flag. It also reinterprets iconic Irish symbols from the harp and shamrock to the tri-spiral placing them within the broader journey toward Irish nationhood and national identity. Along Irelands road to a republic, key figures are restored to their rightful place from Owen Roe ONeill and Wolfe Tone to Thomas Meagher and Padraig Pearse.The book explores crucial turning points the rise of green as Irelands colour, the rebellions of 1642, 1798, 1848, and 1916, Catholic Emancipation, and the flags later use and misuse. A bold, insightful retelling of Irelands story through its symbols.

At 1:23 AM on April 26, 1986, reactor number four of the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant exploded. In the hours and days that followed, heroism and incompetence collided as the Soviet system tried first to deny, then to contain, then to bury the worst nuclear disaster in history. The core is still burning in its concrete sarcophagus.This book traces the full arc of Chernobyl. You will learn the physics of what went wrong, the human decisions that made disaster inevitable, and the sacrifices of the liquidators who died preventing worse. You will understand why the Soviet response, from delayed evacuation to doctored radiation readings, turned a catastrophe into a civilizational indictment.The Burning Core also looks at the aftermath. The exclusion zone became an accidental wildlife sanctuary. The town of Pripyat became a time capsule of Soviet life. And the lessons about institutional failure, about what happens when truth is subordinated to image, remain urgent for any system that operates dangerous technology.

The ships that made Venice rich also brought death. Silk, spices, and silver traveled the same routes as rats, fleas, and bacteria. When the Black Death arrived in Europe in 1347, it followed the trade networks perfectly, killing a third of the continent in four years.This book traces the deadly intersection of commerce and contagion throughout history. You will learn how prosperity and plague traveled as partners, why the most connected cities died fastest, and how the survivors rebuilt on the bones of the fallen. The patterns repeat across centuries, from medieval ports to modern airports.The Merchants Cargo examines the price hidden in every golden age of trade. Connectivity breeds wealth and vulnerability. The merchants who grew rich importing luxury goods also imported invisible killers. Understanding this history is not pessimism. It is preparation for a world more connected than ever before.

Vikings did not wear horned helmets. That image comes from nineteenth-century opera costumes, not archaeological evidence. It is one of dozens of myths surrounding the Norse raiders, traders, and settlers who shaped medieval Europe. The real Vikings were stranger and more interesting than the fantasy.This book dismantles popular misconceptions and replaces them with documented history. You will learn that Vikings were as often traders as raiders, that their hygiene was considered excessive by contemporary Europeans, and that their women held rights unusual for the era. The sagas they left behind are literature, not journalism, and separating fact from embellishment requires care.The Horned Myth is not about diminishing the Vikings. It is about meeting them honestly. The berserkers were real. The navigational achievements were extraordinary. The violence was brutal. But understanding requires discarding the costume-drama version first. The truth has no horns, and it needs none.

It was the ultimate clash of civilizations. On one side, the Song Dynasty of China: the most technologically advanced, culturally sophisticated, and wealthy society on earth. On the other, the Mongol hordes: illiterate nomads from the harsh steppes, possessing nothing but horses, bows, and an unquenchable thirst for conquest. "Steel Against Silk" chronicles the decades-long war that transformed the map of the world.This book challenges the stereotype of the Mongols as mindless barbarians. It reveals the terrifying adaptability of Genghis and Kublai Khan, who learned siege engineering from their enemies and turned Chinas own inventionsgunpowder and bureaucracyagainst it. We witness the epic siege of Xiangyang, where for years the immovable object of Chinese fortification withstood the irresistible force of the Mongol cavalry.But it is also a story of cultural collision. How did a dynasty of poets and scholars fall to a nation of shepherds? Was the softness of the "silk" society its undoing, or did it eventually absorb and civilize its conquerors? Through vivid battle descriptions and analysis of court politics, we explore the brutal birth of the Yuan Dynasty. This is history written in blood and ink.

"The Stolen Genius The pathologist who kept Einsteins brain in a Tupperware box" tells the bizarre true story of Thomas Harvey. When Albert Einstein died in 1955, he wanted to be cremated. But the pathologist on duty, Thomas Harvey, stole the brain during the autopsy. He believed he could find the physical source of genius.Historian Richard Evans chronicles Harveys strange journey. He lost his job, his marriage, and his medical license, but he kept the brain. For 40 years, he drove around America with pieces of Einstein in two mason jars in a cider box, sending slices to scientists who mostly found nothing unusual."The Stolen Genius" is a story about the line between scientific curiosity and grave robbery. It explores our obsession with intelligence and the tragic realization that genius cannot be found under a microscope, but only in the work left behind.

"The Royal Cesspit The day sixty nobles drowned in a latrine" recounts one of the most grotesque disasters in medieval history. In July 1184, King Henry VI called a Hoftag (diet) in the Petersburg Citadel in Erfurt to settle a dispute. Dozens of high-ranking nobles, bishops, and counts gathered in the main hall on the second floor.Historian Timothy Wells describes the moment the wooden floor, rotten and overloaded by the weight of the heavy chainmail and pomp, suddenly snapped. The entire assembly fell through to the first floor, which also collapsed, plunging the elite of the Holy Roman Empire directly into the massive latrine cesspit in the basement."The Royal Cesspit" details how around 60 nobles drowned or suffocated in liquid excrement. The King survived only because he was sitting in a stone alcove. The book explores the political vacuum this disgusting tragedy created and serves as a grim reminder of the sanitation standards of the Middle Ages.

As Ilhas Fiji, um conjunto de mais de 330 ilhas localizadas no coração do Oceano Pacífico Sul, representam um paraíso natural e cultural. Conhecidas por suas praias de areia branca, águas cristalinas

Quando Teófilo terminou de ler o Evangelho que Lucas lhe havia dedicado, pôde se sentir plenamente satisfeito. Mas Teófilo, apesar de seu entusiasmo, teria desejado comentar com Lucas muitas passagen