México Tenochtitlan, El misterio del caracol

Amusing And Engaging Text Describes How The Color Of An Animal Can Ensure Its survival. Provides Examples Using A Variety Of Animals.

La Semana Trágica, las huelgas, las luchas y la necesidad del sufragio femenino, las políticas de la infancia en una trama social en gestación, las prisiones, los trasfondos multicolor del yrigoyenismo, la epidemia de gripe, los recovecos del arte: todo pasa por Katherine Sophie Dreier, singular y generosa mujer de vanguardia, a través de una lente estadounidense convertida en audaz caleidoscopio, lo que hace de este libro un relato fascinante del viaje que esta singular mujer emprendiera por Argentina entre 1918 y 1919.

Cynthia Ann Parkers family moved to Central Texas when she was about nine years old. A year later, a large force of Comanche warriors attacked Fort Parker and seized Cynthia Ann and four other captives. The other four were eventually released, but she lived among the Indians for 25 years, immersed in the Comanche way of life. Though given a number of opportunities to go back to her white family, she always chose her life with the Comanche, choosing instead to stay with her husband and children. She eventually returned to white society as an adult.

The United States grew rapidly from the time of the Louisiana Purchase to the building of the Transcontinental Railroad. All of this expansion came at the expense of Native American populations that had either lived in the region for centuries or been forced there from ancestral homes in the East. Tribes memorably fought on their own and together in an doomed effort to retain the land and a lifestyle that had long sustained their families. This book outlines some of the major conflicts of the Westward Expansion, and of the treaties and were signed, and often broken, by representatives of the...