Chile con pecado concebido

En este libro, el gran historiador contemporáneo recorre toda la historia de la ciudad de Santiago, desde su fundación hasta nuestros días, en un estilo narrativo de notable nitidez. Su relato comienza con el entorno condicionante de la cuenca geográfica que asienta la ciudad, donde 10.000 años a.c se instalaron los primeros cazadores y recolectores. Fundada en 1541 por Pedro de Valdivia, luego de expediciones previas con gran hostilidad de los indios, quienes durante cien años habían soportado dos invasiones incas y dos españolas. En 1640 un grave terremoto obliga a refundar la...

“Each war entails the destruction of the human soul” (Henry Miller). Humanity should not lose its memory, even if some may try to conceal it. From the hindsight afforded by the passing of 75 years from the events narrated, with freedom of thought and a totally independent standpoint, Pacific Media have undertaken an arduous research which has resulted in the series: “The Finest Hours of WWII". From the atrocious moment in which Hitler ordered the invasion of Polish territory to the day in which Emperor Hirohito “had to accept the unacceptable”, all is encompassed in this book over...

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...

Libro que narra el triste destino de Edipo, a quien un oráculo había anunciado que mataría a su padre y se casaría con su madre. El libro cuenta con bloques de juegos y de información sobre diversos aspectos de la cultura griega.