José Agustín Blanco Barros / Obras completas Tomo II Encomiendas, hacienda y pueblos

A ten volume, 9,000 page account of 12 years of happenings in Nicaragua coinciding with insurrection & the revolutionary years (1978-1990). Its purpose is to furnish a documental tool collection equivalent to attending a well equipped library or specialized documentation center. Looking up the different angles & perspectives of this geo-political phenomenon, you may formulate your own analytical criteria on the subject. History is always relevant. "It is a condition of resurgence. It possesses the virtue of experience. It frees us from what was, because the past is 'revenant.' If it is not...

"Inventario de los libros que han tenido ingreso en la seretaría de la Real academía," 1922-29, with v. 83, 85, 87, 89, 91-92, 96, 99.

"A fascinating and beautifully argued interpretation of how the American war in Southeast Asia affected Chicano communities. The author provides the most complete and well-documented study to date of this important chapter in U.S. history and its impact on an ethnic group with long-standing traditions of military service, assimilation, and resistance to injustice. Oropeza's book is what students of the Chicano Movement, especially the Mexican American role in antiwar activities during the Vietnam War period, have been waiting for."—George Mariscal, author of Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano...

Simon Sebag Montefiore, uno de los más eminentes historiadores británicos, nos presenta las vidas de los gigantes que, para bien o para mal, han hecho nuestro mundo, en un reparto que va de conquistadores, poetas, reyes, emperatrices y prostitutas a psicópatas, compositores y exploradores; figuras como Tamerlán, el señor de la guerra mongol que, en el siglo XIV ordenó la construcción de una pirámide de 70.000 cráneos humanos, u Oskar Schindler, el hombre cuyo desinteresado heroísmo salvó a más de mil judíos de la muerte a manos de la los nazis. Informativo, entretenido,...