Arte y hagiografía, siglos XVI-XX

With the help of the victim's widow, a close associate of the murdered defector, Alexander Litvinenko, offers an in-depth account of the former spy's career, from his work in Russia, to his escape to the United Kingdom and his efforts to expose the intrigue and assassinations of the FSB (formerly the KGB), to his murder in October 2006.

En 1831, Alexis de Tocqueville se embarca con su amigo y compañero de la carrera judicial Gustave de Beaumont camino de Estados Unidos. Quince días en las soledades americanas es un apunte vital y evocador de una extraordinaria frescura que nos permite asistir al proceso de colonización estadounidense. En este caso no el de las praderas del medio Oeste, popularizado y mistificado ad nauseam por el cine, sino el de los inabarcables bosques de la región de los Grandes Lagos. En estos párrafos Tocqueville nos presenta un retrato en el que se entrelaza el proceso de construcción de la...

Mapoteca Colombiana: Coleccion de los T?tulos de Todos los Mapas, Planos, Vistas, etc. Relativos ? la Am?rica Espa?ola, Brasil ? Islas Adyacentes.

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...