La revolución democrática (1868-1874)

Which are the views of the Cuban history of those who did not see the revolutionary process? Based on strict survivorship, these are revealed as passionate gaps of different past aspects.

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Ciudad Juarez lies just across the Rio Grande from El Paso, Texas. A once-thriving border town, it now resembles a failed state. Infamously known as the place where women disappear, its murder rate exceeds that of Baghdad. Last year 1,607 people were killed, a number that is on pace to increase in 2009. In Murder City, Charles Bowden, one of the few journalists who has spent extended periods of time in Juarez, has written an extraordinary account of what happens when a city disintegrates. Interweaving stories of its inhabitants, a raped beauty queen, a repentant hitman, a journalist fleeing...

A través de este estudio biográfico y del análisis de la campaña británica en España (1808-1809) dirigida por sir John Moore a través del noroeste peninsular, Juan Granados trata las circunstancias que rodearon los comienzos de la guerra de la Independencia española en Galicia y especialmente lo sucedido en A Coruña en aquellos difíciles momentos. A menudo la utilización, casi en exclusividad, de las fuentes estrictamente británicas por parte de la historiografía más difundida, a la hora de analizar este período presidido por la figura de sir John, desvirtúa un tanto, en...

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