La Iglesia en la historia moderna y contemporánea

"Although exhaustively researched, book is too detailed and not well written. Work does not focus on Cuba directly; rather, it studies the powerful influence of Cuban proslavery interests in the fight against reforms and abolition carried on by Valencia's urban patriarchs"--Handbook of Latin American Studies, v. 58.

Una clase magistral sobre el arte del liderazgo por el mayor experto mundial en pensamiento estratégico. ¿Qué lecciones de estrategia y liderazgo podemos extraer de la derrota de la Armada Invencible, de la actuación de Churchill en la Segunda Guerra Mundial o de las astutas decisiones de Pericles en la Grecia antigua? John Lewis Gaddis cuenta las más sorprendentes maniobras, fallidas o atinadas, desde el mundo clásico hasta la Segunda Guerra Mundial, y profundiza en el pensamiento estratégico a partir de figuras como Heródoto, César Augusto, San Agustín, Maquiavelo, Felipe II,...

Seven essays were presented at the conference of 2010 in Jekyll Island on the centenary of this event, so in this book, you will find the origins, the foundation, the decisive events and the future of the Federal Reserve of the United States of America. It is written as an economic and macro-economy history analysis, that starts like you may suppose, with the origins of the Federal Reserve and its firsts effects inside the financial scene of the United States of America, afterwards it analyzes the historic labor of this institution since 1913, year of its foundation, until now and accurately...