Los romanos

This book is a Spanish translation of the proceedings of a conference held in 1986. Archaeologists and conservators from around the world met in Mexico City to examine the unique problems associated with in situ archaeological conservation. The papers presented focus on a wide variety of materials (including adobe, wood, ceramics, textiles, painting, skin, and bone) and sites as diverse as Algeria and the Arctic. Of special note are case studies of three spectacular sites in Mexico: Teotihuacan, Tenochtitlan, and Cacaxtla.

Empobrecido y exhausto tras cincuenta anos de guerras continuas, el gran imperio espanol negocio, en los ultimos anos del siglo XVI y primeros del XVII, tratados con sus tres enemigos mas poderosos: Inglaterra, Francia y los Paises Bajos. Paul Allen sostiene que los gestos de paz del rey formaban, en realidad, parte de una gran estrategia que permitiria a Espana recuperar su fuerza militar y economica mediante enganosos senuelos presentados a sus adversarios para apartarlos de sus empresas militares.

Al arribar a Paraguay en octubre de 1955, Juan Domingo Perón dio su primera conferencia de prensa luego de su derrocamiento. Un corresponsal le preguntó entonces qué pensaba hacer para regresar al poder. Perón lo miró y le respondió: "Nada. Todo lo harán mis enemigos". Los siguientes dieciocho años de la historia argentina parecen resumirse en esa frase. Este nuevo libro de Mitos de la historia argentina está dedicado a dilucidar la primera década de proscripción del peronismo y de exilio de su conductor. Durante ese período, los sucesivos y diversos intentos de "desperonizar" al...

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...