Los indios de Norteamérica

El periodista veterano e historiador otomano Michael Rank te trae una historia concisa de 2,000 años de guerra, paz, revueltas religiosas y colapsos sociales en el Medio Oriente, en este emocionante libro. Para la mayoría de occidentales el Medio Oriente parece demasiado confuso. Los Palestinos quieren bombardear Israelíes que los fuerzan a punta de pistola a vivir en partes restringidas del país. Los líderes árabes están furiosos por esta situación y quieren borrar a los israelíes del mapa; y regresar su tierra a los palestinos, a pesar de que el estado real de Tierra Santa parece...

Joseph Pérez ha escrito esta historia, buscando aportar una mirada de hispanista a las cuestiones que deciden qué es una nación. A partir del año de 711, el autor pretende desarrollar sus argumentos en torno a los siglos de la reconquista y el nacimiento de las tres coronas - Castilla, Aragón y Portugal -. Asimismo se plantea si durante el imperio de los Austrias se puede hablar de España como país o sólo como unión en torno a una dinastía hegemónica.

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Located halfway between Los Angeles and Yuma, Arizona, Indio came into being as a railroad town in 1876 when the Southern Pacific Railroad completed this last link in its southern transcontinental route. Settling this arid land took ingenuity and courage, and Indio's early residents had both. In the 1930s, Indio became a mining town when 92 miles of tunnel were dug through its eastern mountains for the Los Angeles Aqueduct, the largest construction project in the United States during the Depression. World War II brought Gen. George Patton's Desert Tank Corps to train nearby and crowd into...