Libros de Historia por países, página 103 de 406

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Con un estilo que permite al lector ser partícipe en todo momento de la evolución de los hechos y también del estado emocional del autor y de los principales implicados, especialmente los familiares de las victimas, en el presente libro no solo se plasma la reconstruccion de lo que acontecio aquella noche de septiembre de 2014, sino los numerosos obstaculos puestos por las autoridades para que se llevase a buen puerto la tarea encomendada al GIEI: un amplio repertorio de añagazas con un unico objetivo: imponer una verdad que nada tenia que ver con LA verdad; un relato que salvaguardaba a las autoridades a costa del dolor de las familias.

From the bestselling author of The Lost City of Z, now a major film starring Charlie Hunnam, Sienna Miller and Robert Pattison, comes a true-life murder story which became one of the FBIs first major homicide investigations. In the 1920s, the richest people per capita in the world were members of the Osage Indian nation in Oklahoma. After oil was discovered beneath their land, they rode in chauffeured automobiles, built mansions and sent their children to study in Europe.Then, one by one, the Osage began to be killed off. As the death toll climbed, the FBI took up the case. But the bureau badly bungled the investigation. In desperation, its young director, J. Edgar Hoover, turned to a former Texas Ranger named Tom White to unravel the mystery. Together with the Osage he and his undercover team began to expose one of the most chilling conspiracies in American history.

A world of riches and glamour, but also tragedy, abuse and disease, this book looks at how this influenced building and the arts in London.

In the eighteenth century, the palace's most elegant assembly room was in fact a bloody battlefield. This was a world of skulduggery, politicking, wigs and beauty-spots, where fans whistled open like flick-knives...Ambitious and talented people flocked to court of George II and Queen Caroline in search of power and prestige, but Kensington Palace was also a gilded cage. Successful courtiers needed level heads and cold hearts; their secrets were never safe. Among them, a Vice Chamberlain with many vices, a Maid of Honour with a secret marriage, a pushy painter, an alcoholic equerry, a Wild Boy, a penniless poet, a dwarf comedian, two mysterious turbaned Turks and any number of discarded royal mistresses.

Tres países conservaron la esclavitud intensiva con fines productivos hasta fechas muy avanzadas del siglo del progreso: los Estados Unidos (1865), Cuba (1886) y Brasil (1888). La expansión de la esclavitud despues de 1800 formaba parte de una renovada di

In this brilliant new work, Amanda Vickery unlocks the homes of Georgian England to examine the lives of the people who lived there. Writing with her customary wit and verve, she introduces us to men and women from all walks of life: gentlewoman Anne Dormer in her stately Oxfordshire mansion, bachelor clerk and future novelist Anthony Trollope in his dreary London lodgings, genteel spinsters keeping up appearances in two rooms with yellow wallpaper, servants with only a locking box to call their own.Vickery makes ingenious use of upholsterers ledgers, burglary trials, and other unusual sources to reveal the roles of house and home in economic survival, social success, and political representation during the long eighteenth century. Through the spread of formal visiting, the proliferation of affordable ornamental furnishings, the commercial celebration of feminine artistry at home, and the currency of the language of taste, even modest homes turned into arenas of social campaign and exhibition.

Una historia de Asia Oriental proporciona una historia general de la region, desde el siglo XII a.C. hasta la actualidad. Charles Holcombe se ocupa primero de definir lo que denomina "Asia Oriental" para despues escribir una historia que incluye las particularidades de cada pueblo y los rasgos que comparten entre si. Para el autor resulta fundamental enlazar esta narracion con el proceso de globalizacion actual, perfilando asi una explicacion de por que estos paises son hoy grandes potencias economicas no solo en el continente, sino en todo el mundo.