La historia azteca

En esta fascinante guía usted descubrirá por qué los mayas han alcanzado tal admiración alrededor del mundo por encima de las muchas otras civilizaciones que existieron en Mesoamérica en aquel tiempo

Muy pocos de los antiguos imperios y naciones fueron capaces de desafiar a los romanos, que eran famosos por su poderío militar.

Las guerras napoleónicas, que tuvieron lugar entre 1803 y 1815, fueron encabezadas por el mejor táctico y estratega militar de Francia, el general Napoleón Bonaparte.

Si quiere descubrir la fascinante historia de la Guerra Fría, siga leyendo... Las semillas de la Guerra Fría se sembraron hacia el final de la Segunda Guerra Mundial. Durante la guerra, Estados Unidos y la Unión Soviética fueron socios renuentes. La doctrina comunista de los soviéticos estaba decididamente en desacuerdo con la noción estadounidense del capitalismo, la libre empresa y el individualismo rudo. Pero, como suele ocurrir en la historia, a pesar de sus diferencias, Estados Unidos y la Rusia soviética tenían un enemigo común que los unía: la Alemania nazi. Pero poco...

De Olfato. Aproximaciones a los olores en la historia de México es una colección de artículos sobre los olores y la experiencia que de ellos han tenido los sujetos individuales y colectivos a través de la historia de México en tres periodos: el prehispánico, el colonial y el contemporáneo. Representa la entrada de la historia mexicana en el campo de la historia de las sensibilidades.

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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...

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