El Tabaco: Su Cultivo, Producción Y Comercio...

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In 1839, French writer and activist Flora Tristán traveled to London to observe firsthand the capital of the first modern industrial nation in the world. In Promenades dans Londres, she recounts the four months she spent visiting both those areas of the city the tourists avoided (and a few places she could only enter disguised as a man)—workshops and brothels, working-class neighborhoods and factories, asylums and jails—as well as the haunts of the bourgeoisie: Parliament, the horse races at Ascot, and private clubs. Her resulting diatribe against the inequalities she witnessed, and the...

Bernal Díaz del Castillo (1492-1584) was a foot soldier in the army of Mexico's conqueror Hernán Cortés. The first edition of his True History of the Conquest of New Spain (as it was entitled in a later English translation) was published in Madrid in 1632 from a manuscript copy sent to Spain shortly after the author's death. Written in a highly accessible style, and describing the experiences of the troops themselves rather than seeing events from an officer's perspective, the work became even more successful than the official accounts and went through many editions and translations. The...

In 1565, Pedro Menendez De Aviles sailed to Florida and fulfilled his duty to Phillip II by recapturing Frances's primary settlement, Fort Caroline, and executing the Fort's commander, Jean Ribault, along with his men. This work was based on the study of the key chroniclers and their writings.

Este trabajo es una extensa investigación documental, que comprende desde libros clásicos de nuestra historiografía hasta las publicaciones mas recientes sobre los sexenios de Carlos Salinas, Ernesto Zedillo, Vicente Fox y los controversiales acontecimientos que han caracterizado los primeros meses de 2005. lo que convierte a esta obra en la más actualizada. Además aborda os acontecimientos históricos de nuestro país exaltando el aspecto humano de los personaje de leyendas, anécdotas, curiosidades históricas y un detallado seguimiento de los presidentes de México y sus gabinetes.