A la vera de las independencias de la América Hispánica

Este libro estudia los origenes de la Universidad de La Habana que en la epoca colonial fue dirigida por la Orden de los Dominicos. Pero ademas de aportar datos importantes sobre el origen y desarrollo de la Universidad y de la historia colonial cubana, ofrece un resumen biografico de las personalidades cubanas que estudiaron en la Universidad en los siglos xviii y xix, que fueron los forjadores de la Nacion Cubana. Entre ellos: Arango y Parre?o, Jose A. Caballero, Escobedo, Pe?alver, Romay, Urrutia, P. Felix Varela, Aguilera, Joaquin de Aguero, Bachiller y Morales, Calixto Bernal, Cespedes,...

From the first crude stone tools used by man two-and-a-half million years ago up to the early medieval period, this eye-opening journey through human innovations draws on modern science and the latest research to explore some of history's most fascinating inventions. Beginning with the basic technologies of stone and fire, bone and wood, the survey moves on to answer such fundamental questions as How and where did agriculture evolve? and How did Romans and others heat and plumb their dwellings? This unique guide to some of humanity's most remarkable inventions is a testimony to the brilliant...

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work. This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute...

Las grandes compañías y corporaciones internacionales son una parte normal de nuestra vida cotidiana hoy en día. Para la mayoría, su inimaginable riqueza y poder, que rivalizan incluso con algunos de los países más pequeños del mundo, es algo que damos por sentado.