La herencia medieval del Brasil

En conflictos internos alrededor del mundo, los civiles desarmados asumen enormes riesgos para protegerse a sí mismos y enfrentar a combatientes armados. Esto no solo es contraintuitivo, es extraordinario. En este libro, Oliver Kaplan analiza casos de Colombia, así como de Afganistán, Pakistán, Siria y Filipinas, para mostrar cómo y por qué los civiles pueden influenciar a los actores armados y limitar la violencia. Basándose en trabajo de campo y análisis estadístico, el libro pretende explicar cómo la organización y la cohesión posibilitan estrategias, tanto encubiertas como...

Estudio historico sobre las acciones guerrilleras y subversivas que ha dirigido Castro en America Latina, principalmente en Argentina, Peru, Colombia, Venezuela, Guatemala, Bolivia, Republica Dominicana y Uruguay."

Mexican Army veteran Andres Duarte was granted 6,595 acres along the southern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841 by the governor of Alta California. Rancho Azusa de Duarte eventually was carved into 40-acre parcels, and arriving families from the East and Midwest built schools, installed water lines, and grew crops. By 1900, two major rail lines served the area's thriving citrus industry. Duarte's beneficial climate led to the establishment in 1913 of a tuberculosis sanitarium, which became City of Hope, the world-class cancer treatment center. Bandleader Glenn Miller settled in...

"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...