El mundo griego y el Oriente II

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El doctor Luis Suárez Fernández ha sabido revivir con maestría las emociones de peligro dinástico y nacional del reinado de don Juan I. El rey castellano recibió un reino hipotecado por problemas derivados del anterior reinado: Portugal e Inglaterra siguieron siendo contrarios al titular de Castilla y León. Juan de Gante, casado con Constanza, hija de Pedro I, reclamaba el trono. Pero su compleja política exterior va más allá, pues en el otro frente Juan I quiso ocupar Lisboa y hubo de aceptar la derrota de Aijubarrota. Su política interior, sin embargo, se caracterizó por una...

Mexican Army veteran Andres Duarte was granted 6,595 acres along the southern foothills of the San Gabriel Mountains in 1841 by the governor of Alta California. Rancho Azusa de Duarte eventually was carved into 40-acre parcels, and arriving families from the East and Midwest built schools, installed water lines, and grew crops. By 1900, two major rail lines served the area's thriving citrus industry. Duarte's beneficial climate led to the establishment in 1913 of a tuberculosis sanitarium, which became City of Hope, the world-class cancer treatment center. Bandleader Glenn Miller settled in...

¿Por qué determinadas civilizaciones sobreviven y se imponen, mientras que otras acaban desapareciendo? A partir de estudios de varios casos concretos de sociedades pasadas y presentes, Diamond describe con gran rigor y amenidad los principales problemas a que se exponen las sociedades actuales; tanto en él ámbito medioambientalcomo en los aspectos sociales y culturales. La globalización, con sus grandezas y sus miserias, plantea grandes desafíos que el autor afronta con sagacidad, espíritu crítico y optimismo.