Pinochet

El historiador dos veces galardonado con el Premio Pulitzer David McCullough se sumerge en el pasado estadounidense, siguiendo la estela de Tocqueville y los grandes escritores convencidos de los valores de la democracia. Quince espléndidos textos escritos con ocasión de diferentes conmemoraciones públicas dan lugar a una sólida narración, precisa y elegante: desde valores encarnados en figuras casi míticas como Theodore Roosevelt y J. F. Kennedy al modo como John Adams cedió la responsabilidad de la redacción de la Constitución a Jefferson, al que consideraba mejor escritor que él; ...

La historia de Santa Marta y su territorio de influencia empieza antes del Descubrimiento, la Conquista y la Colonización española, con la presencia de varios pueblos indígenas, siendo los taironas el de mayor desarrollo cultural.Muchos de los temas históricos o económicos de esta provincia carecen de profundización, por lo que esta obra abarca un intervalo de tiempo más amplio tocando los aspectos históricos más relevantes.

This book is a landmark in Mexican rural history. Activists and professional historians have long argued that the nineteenth-century privatization of indigenous communal lands was the original sin that laid the ground for the agrarian strife of the twentieth century. Many also claimed that this privatization drove the political mobilizations of indigenous peasants even before the Revolution. Nevertheless, very few historians have actually studied the process through which indigenous lands were privatized, and their findings have been published mostly as tantalizing but sketchy articles. In...

Is it possible to create an enjoyable and mysterious history of literature? Every author—novelist, philosopher, poet, or essayist—has any enigma to offer or reveal, either about their lives or about their works. For instance, do we know exactly where Cervantes was born? Are we sure that Conan Doyle was not a murderer? Why did Comte decide to create his own religion? Did Jose Cadalso exhume his girlfriend's corpse? Was Corneille Moiré's ghostwriter? Was Berbiguier harassed by imps? Maybe Jules Verne did belong to a secret society. Have any works been inspired by dreams—or by insanity?...