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American military aviation reached a low point after World War I, lagging behind its European counterparts and facing a peacetime battle for survival. To raise the public profile of aviation, military leaders encouraged their pilots to enter air shows and vie for speed, endurance, and altitude records. As a result, U.S. Army airmen daringly accomplished the first flight around the world in 1924, three years before Charles Lindbergh's famous solo flight. In Around the World in 175 Days, Carroll V. Glines recounts this adventure from the golden age of aviation. After two years of planning, four ...

En un contexto global de sostenido interés por la Cuenca del Pacífico, en especial por las pujantes economías asiáticas, resulta imprescindible visitar el pasado y recordar que Filipinas, durante siglos, fue la puerta de Iberoamérica en Asia. Este libro, de manera sintética, recrea el proceso de construcción de la nación filipina desde los remotos orígenes prehispánicos hasta nuestros días. Revisa los desafíos que impuso a la vida social una geografía fragmentada en millares de islas, repasa formas de organización política y económica bajo los imperios español y...

Section 17 (American Prehistory). President of the Section: Sergio Purin Acts of the XIVth UISPP Congress, University of Liège, Belgium, 2-8 September 2001.