última cruzada del Papa (The Pope's Last Crusade - Spanish Edition)

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Amparado en la tradición caciquil del país, Saturnino Cedillo mantuvo bajo su control el estado de San Luis Potosí: contaba con el apoyo del gobierno central y, a su vez, le ofrecía el apoyo de su región. Su poder se sustentó en sus bases campesinas a quienes concedió las colonias agrícolas militares en la zona que rodea a Ciudad del Maíz y mantuvo a raya a los ricos de la capital potosina. Creyó que su alianza popular y su apoyo a los gobiernos revolucionarios le permitirían ser considerado en la elite del poder. Consiguió la cartera de Agricultura en dos ocasiones, la segunda ya ...

From the first crude stone tools used by man two-and-a-half million years ago up to the early medieval period, this eye-opening journey through human innovations draws on modern science and the latest research to explore some of history's most fascinating inventions. Beginning with the basic technologies of stone and fire, bone and wood, the survey moves on to answer such fundamental questions as How and where did agriculture evolve? and How did Romans and others heat and plumb their dwellings? This unique guide to some of humanity's most remarkable inventions is a testimony to the brilliant...

"A fascinating and beautifully argued interpretation of how the American war in Southeast Asia affected Chicano communities. The author provides the most complete and well-documented study to date of this important chapter in U.S. history and its impact on an ethnic group with long-standing traditions of military service, assimilation, and resistance to injustice. Oropeza's book is what students of the Chicano Movement, especially the Mexican American role in antiwar activities during the Vietnam War period, have been waiting for."—George Mariscal, author of Aztlán and Viet Nam: Chicano...