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L'Italia ha visto rifiorire il gusto della denuncia della congiura, della trama occulta, della manovra trasversale: del complotto appunto. Il libro racconta, in nove capitoli, congiura per congiura, il travaglio che ha attraversato il nostro Paese, dal complotto "di" Mani Pulite a quello "contro" Mani Pulite, dal complotto contro il Quirinale a quello contro la lira: un travaglio che non e finito con le elezioni del 27 marzo 1994 che hanno aperto la strada al governo delle destre. Quasi a dire che le presunte trame oscure de "L'anno dei complotti" non hanno fatto altro che aprire la strada a una nuova stagione di congiure.

El naufragio de las naos Nuestra Señora del Juncal y Santa Teresa Almiranta y Capitana, respectivamente de la Flota de la Nueva España da pie a este muy bien documentado libro. El autor, usando una gran cantidad de documentos de tres archivos españoles y uno de Campeche, hace referencia a las diferentes versiones de sus oficiales y a los juicios que se siguieron en España. Solo 39 de sus mas de 300 tripulantes pudieron vivir para contarlo, se considera que uno de los cargamentos masimportantes del periodo colonial, mas de tres y medio millones de pesos en lingotes y reales, era el que iba a bordo de la flota perdida. Este caudal es todavia objeto decodicia entre los buscadores de tesoros de todo el mundo.

Un testo che raccoglie le riflessioni, gli appunti, i discorsi del Che sul tema della lotta anticolonialista.

Lorànt Deutsch met une nouvelle fois son formidable talent de conteur au service de l’histoire de notre pays. Des voies romaines aux sentiers de Saint-Jacques-de-Compostelle, le comédien nous entraî

Los años de gobierno de Ceaucescu en Rumanía (1967-1989) fueron también de persecución. Estos relatos ayudan a entender Europa y muestran, una vez más, la locura del totalitarismo.Los años de gobierno de Ceaucescu en Rumania (1967-1989) fueron tambien de persecucion. A las afueras de los pueblos, como una advertencia, quedan entonces los huesos de las victimas asesinadas por la Securitate, la temible policia politica rumana. Numerosos obispos y sacerdotes greco-ortodoxos fueron encarcelados y martirizados.Marius Oprea, investigador de crimenesdurante el regimen y disidente en esos años, relata al autor historias hasta ahora desconocidas, que contribuyen a entender Europa y muestran, una vez mas, la locura del totalitarismo.Conozco a Marius Oprea por su lucha contra los residuos del totalitarismo en Rumania, y lo apoyo publicamente para que pueda continuar investigando sobre los crimenes del comunismo. (Harta Muller, premio Nobel de Literatura).Guido Barella es periodista del diario Il Piccolo, en Trieste. Ha sido reelegido durante varios años consejero nacional de la Asociacion Italiana de periodistas.

This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia''s high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance.In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.

En un continente inmerso en un proceso independentista, Cuba mantuvo su fidelidad a la Corona española gracias a unas estructuras políticas, económicas y sociales consolidadas en el inicio del s. XIX. La Iglesia se convirtio en pieza fundamental de ese engranaje bajo el poderoso obispo Diaz de Espada. Acusado de liberal, independentista y mason por personalidades de la epoca, Espada fue, sin embargo, sello de fidelidad a la metropoli y representante del reformismo borbonico en la isla. Su preocupacion por mejorar las condiciones de vida de la poblacion le impulsaron a promover reformas educativas e higienicas, y a plantear un modelo de produccion alternativo al de la plantacion esclavista.

Narrativa historica

He aquí un umbral al pasado escrito con excepcional precisión y claridad. Esta segunda edición, corregida y aumentada, mantiene el objetivo principal que originalmente guió su concepción: realizar una vision integral de la historia de Mexico que fuera asequible para todo publico, concisa, amena y que fuera el reflejo de la labor de los mas destacados profesionales de la materia. De esta forma se pretende dotar a los lectores de un panorama historico solido que fomente la curiosidad y el aprendizaje del pasado como una parte indispensable de su horizonte cultural.

In its earliest days, the American-led war in Afghanistan appeared to be a triumph - a good war in comparison to the debacle in Iraq. It has since turned into one of the longest and most expensive wars in recent history. The story of how this good war went so bad may well turn out to be a defining tragedy of the twenty-first century - yet, as acclaimed war correspondent Jack Fairweather explains, it should also give us reason to hope for an outcome grounded in Afghan reality.In The Good War, Fairweather provides the first full narrative history of the war in Afghanistan, from the 2001 invasion to the 2014 withdrawal. Drawing on hundreds of interviews, previously unpublished archives, and months of experience living and reporting in Afghanistan, Fairweather traces the course of the conflict from its inception after 9/11 to the drawdown in 2014. In the process, he explores the righteous intentions and astounding hubris that caused the Wests strategy in Afghanistan to flounder, refuting the long-held notion that the war could have been won with more troops and cash. Fairweather argues that only by accepting the limitations in Afghanistan - from the presence of the Taliban to the ubiquity of poppy production to the countrys inherent unsuitability for rapid, Western-style development - can we help to restore peace in this shattered land.A timely lesson in the perils of nation-building and a sobering reminder of the limits of military power, The Good War leads readers from the White House Situation Room to Afghan military outposts, from warlords palaces to insurgents dens, to explain how the US and its British allies might have salvaged the Afghan campaign - and how we must rethink other good wars in the future.

This monumental series, acclaimed as a "masterpiece of comprehensive scholarship" in the New York Times Book Review, reveals the impact of Asia''s high civilizations on the development of modern Western society. The authors examine the ways in which European encounters with Asia have altered the development of Western society, art, literature, science, and religion since the Renaissance.In Volume III: A Century of Advance, the authors have researched seventeenth-century European writings on Asia in an effort to understand how contemporaries saw Asian societies and peoples.

LIBRO DE NO-FICCION HISTORICO

In 1929, a farmer accidentally discovered a tomb near the Mediterranean coast of Syria, about 12 km north of the modern seaport of Latakia. Initial excavations at the tell of Ras Shamra by René Dussaud and Claude Schaeffer brought to light impressive architectural remains, numerous artifacts, and tablets written in cuneiform (both alphabetic and syllabic), and the excavators soon were able to identify the site as the ancient city of Ugarit. Much of the material remains came to be dated to the end of the Late Bronze Age, from the 14th century through the 12th century b.c.e., and the religious, economic, and mythological texts from that era have had a major effect on our understanding of the history of the late 2nd millennium. However, by that time the site had already seen more than 6,000 years of occupation, and the data from Ras ShamraUgarit thus have become important as a reference point for the early history of the Near East along the Levantine coast and the eastern Mediterranean.In this volume, Marguerite Yon, the principal investigator since the early 1970s on behalf of the French archaeological team, brings us up to date on the 70-year-long excavation of the site. During the past 25 years, much of our understanding of the site itself has changed, due to new excavations, reexcavation, and reinterpretation of prior excavations. This volume is the authoritative latest word on the data from the site and their meaning for our understanding of the importance of ancient Ugarit.Heavily illustrated, including many black-and-white and color photographs.

Warfare is a major feature of the history of the middle ages, but its study has often been the province of amateurs; only recently have the technical details of warfare and its organisation been subject to proper scholarly investigation. Professor Verbruggens major work, outstanding in its field, applies rigorous standards in analysing often very obscure surviving evidence, and reaches conclusions very different from earlier generations of military historians.He begins by analysing the sources for our knowledge of the military history of the period, assessing their reliability: some chroniclers exaggerate, others are careful observers or have access to official records. There follows an examination of the constituent parts of the medieval army, knights and footsoldiers, equipment and terms of service, behaviour on the field, and psychology, before the problematic question of medieval tactics is addressed through analysis of accounts of a series of major battles. Strategy is discussed in the context of these battles: whether to seek battle, fight a defensive war, or attempt a war of conquest.Originally published in Dutch in 1954, now translated and updated.

Praised for its scope and depth, Asia in the Making of Europe is the first comprehensive study of Asian influences on Western culture. For volumes I and II, the author has sifted through virtually every European reference to Asia published in the sixteenth-century; he surveys a vast array of writings describing Asian life and society, the images of Asia that emerge from those writings, and, in turn, the reflections of those images in European literature and art. This monumental achievement reveals profound and pervasive influences of Asian societies on developing Western culture; in doing so, it provides a perspective necessary for a balanced view of world history.Volume I: The Century of Discovery brings together "everything that a European could know of India, Southeast Asia, China, and Japan, from printed books, missionary reports, traders'' accounts and maps" (The New York Review of Books).Volume II: A Century of Wonder examines the influence of that vast new body of information about Asia on the arts, institutions, literatures, and ideas of sixteenth-century Europe.

To the River is the story of the Ouse, the Sussex river in which Virginia Woolf drowned in 1941. One idyllic, midsummer week over sixty years later, Olivia Laing walked Woolf''s river from source to sea.The result is a passionate investigation into how history resides in a landscape - and how ghosts never quite leave the places they love.

ue a menudo pasan desapercibidos al viajero ocasional. Su punto de partida es que los pueblos peninsulares continúan viviendo de espaldas y mostrando una lamentable incapacidad para conocerse a fondo y trabajar juntos para resolver las multiples dificultades que les afectan. Sabemos muy poco, casi nada, de la historia, las costumbres o la idiosincrasia profunda de quienes ocupan la parte occidental de la vieja Iberia entre el Miño y el Algarve. Asuntos como la Revolucion de los Claveles, el fenomeno del fado o los aspectos psicologicos y sociales que diferencian a portugueses y españoles son abordados desde una perspectiva poco habitual. Con este texto, que reune elementos de la cronica de costumbres, el ensayo y el relato desenfadado, tratamos de contribuir a una aproximacion solidaria a nuestro vecino invisible