La conquista y el mar: una historia global

Tribe by Sebastian Junger | Summary & Analysis Preview: Tribe by Sebastian Junger is a scientific and journalistic consideration of the correlation between societies with egalitarian tribal structures and low rates of mental illness, particularly post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) in soldiers returning home. The sense of tribal belonging was documented in the eighteenth century among settlers in North America, who often joined Native American tribes even after those tribes held them as prisoners or waged war against the settlers. Those tribes were particularly egalitarian in nature, and...

El doctor Ramón Puente vivió intensamente las principales campañas militares del México revolucionario. Con estos antecedentes el autor describe aquí los avatares que debió recorrer para acercarse a la vida y hechos de los personajes revolucionarios y, en particular, a los de Plutarco Elías Calles, el hombre que, en su opinión, más odios engendró, mayor número de discordias promovió y más denuestos se ganó.

Testigo de excepción, Churchill - primer ministro británico durante los períodos 1940-1945 y 1951-1955 - describe en este libro el transcurso de la segunda guerra mundial y los principales episodios que en ella acontecieron, legando un testimonio directo sin parangón con ningún otro de sus protagonistas coetáneos. El camino hacia el desastre desde el tratado de Versalles hasta que Hitler conquista Polonia, la guerra 'ficticia' que acabó con la invasión alemana de Escandinavia, la caída de Francia y la batalla de Gran Bretaña, el bombardeo de Londres, la lucha en el desierto... son...

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...