Chile: Cien días en la historia del siglo XX

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...

Fernando VII (1784-1833) ha sido considerado uno de los monarcas más nefastos de la historia de España, tanto por su carácter, muy influenciable, determinado por su doblez y desconfianza hacia todo y hacia todos, como por sus actuaciones. Autoritario y cruel, ejerció un acusado poder personal y reprimió toda disidencia. Entre otras consecuencias, ello supuso la pérdida de casi la totalidad de las colonias americanas y el declive de España como potencia internacional. Basado en múltiples fuentes y documentos, en los relatos de la época y en las interpretaciones de la historiografía...

How did Spanish America influence the creation of an independent Brazil? In the six studies that this book contains, Joao Paulo Pimenta covers several points of contact between the Hispanic and Luso-American revolutionary processes in an attempt to show that the reciprocal parallelisms imply an erroneous separation of the two movements which are actually just one

The essays in this volume evaluate progress made in the implementation of the peace agreements in Guatemala and signal some of the key challenges for future political and institutional reform.