La Real y Pontificia Universidad de San Gerónimo de la Habana

The Improbable Conquest offers translations of a series of little-known letters from the chaotic Spanish conquest of the Río de la Plata region, uncovering a rich and understudied historical resource. These letters were written by a wide variety of individuals, including clergy, military officers, and the region’s first governor, Pedro de Mendoza. There is also an exceptional contribution from Isabel de Guevara, one of the few women involved in the conquest to have recorded her experiences. Writing about the conditions of settlements and expeditions, these individuals vividly expose the...

This study looks at the concepts of society, space, urbanism, expansion and organisation in the transition from Late Antiquity to the medieval period in Castile, Spain. Escalona reviews the evidence for the Iron Age and Roman antecedents in this area and details the history of fragmentation of the different territories within it, especially under the Visigoths and prior to the medieval period. Escalona discusses the development of a series of territories including Juarros, Carazo, Barbadillo and Salas, and focuses in particular on Lara which, by the middle of the 11th century, had become the...

Uno de los eventos mas importantes en la historia de la aviacion es aun desconocido por muchos, debido al encubrimiento de los paises que lo protagonizaron, los Estados Unidos y la Union Sovietica. Ocurrio durante la Segunda Guerra Mundial y la Guerra Fria que le siguio, y tuvo serias consecuencias sobre la politica internacional. Caido del cielo recrea como el dictador de la Union Sovietica, Joseph Stalin, hizo una copia exacta del B-29 norteamericano --bombardero estrategico superpesado de largo alcance-- y lo convirtio en el TU-4 sovietico. Es un relato lleno de accion e intriga, donde...

Seventy years after the beginning of the Spanish Civil War, disillusioned soldiers horrified by the actual conditions in which they found themselves, who deserted from either side of the conflict, and who were later tracked down and punished by Franco's government, share their eyewitness accounts of events and their motives for deserting.