Mercedes Sanz-Bachiller

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1936 constituye una mirada historiográfica ponderada sobre la Guerra Civil que asoló España entre julio de 1936 y abril de 1939. Aquella brutal contienda fratricida fue un profundo cisma de extrema violencia en la convivencia de una sociedad atravesada por múltiples líneas de fractura interna que aún hoy requiere un análisis sereno.

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...

Esta obra pretende acercar al lector a la sociedad gallega de la Alta Edad Media, combinando la rigurosidad científica con un lenguaje claro y accesible a todo tipo de público. Para ello, cada uno de sus capítulos tiene como protagonista aun personaje histórico real, siguiendo un orden cronológico, que sirve como elemento introductorio a los diversos temas que aborda el libro. El autor, Carlos Baliñas Pérez, es doctor en Historia y profesor de Historia Medieval de Galicia en la Facultad de Humanidades de Lugo (Universidad de Santiago de Compostela).