De héroes e indeseables

Estudio, a partir de un manuscrito de 1605, de las Alpujarras sometidas a la jurisdicción real en los aspectos económicos, rentas reales, pósitos y propios de los concejos, jurisdicción civil y criminal, beneficios eclesiásticos, compra de lugares por particulares y propuestas de mejora para los términos alpujarreños, en cuanto a la población, número de lugares de cada taha y de vecinos en el momentos de la rebelión morisca, y lugares, barrios y vecinos con que se repoblaron después de 1571 y en 1605.

Desde Sevilla hasta Veracruz, de Acapulco a Manila o de Barcelona a Sicilia, la Armada de los Austrias españoles fue la mayor potencia naval del mundo durante casi dos siglos. Este libro analiza el sistema naval del imperio poniendo el acento en el estudio de las tripulaciones, de los barcos, de las estrategias y de las batallas. Un modelo naval global que funcionó razonablemente bien y que le permitió convertirse en una potencia hegemónica pese a la dificultad que entrañaba proteger los intereses de un vastísimo territorio. La delicada situación económica de la Monarquía Hispánica...

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Augusto Pinochet was the most important Third World dictator of the Cold War, and perhaps the most ruthless. In The Dictator's Shadow, United Nations Ambassador Heraldo Munoz takes advantage of his unmatched set of perspectives -- as a former revolutionary who fought the Pinochet regime, as a respected scholar, and as a diplomat -- to tell what this extraordinary figure meant to Chile, the United States, and the world. Pinochet's American backers saw his regime as a bulwark against Communism; his nation was a testing ground for U.S.-inspired economic theories. Countries desiring World Bank...