Tribulaciones, miserias y padecimientos de los mareantes españoles (Siglos XV - XVIII)

Cinco siglos de batallas navales trascendentales por la hegemonía del Mare Nostrum: desde Solimán contra el Imperio Español o Napoleón contra Inglaterra hasta las dos Guerras Mundiales. El fascinante mundo de la Armée Royale, la Mediterranean Fleet, la Regia Marina o la KuK Marine de la mano de grandes nombres como Barbarroja, Juan de Austria, Andrea Doria o Horacio Nelson. Breve historia de las batallas navales en el Mediterráneo es el tercer título de nuestra serie sobre batallas navales ( Breve historia de las batallas navales de la Antigüedad y Breve historia de las batalles...

La intervencion de Estados Unidos en la guerra de independencia de Cuba, una ocupacion de cuatro anos y las condiciones impuestas mediante la Enmienda Platt marcaron el dificil comienzo de la republica que en 2002 conmemora su centenario. En este libro se analiza de manera minuciosa, y al mismo tiempo abarcadora, el discurso politico de la prensa en los albores de la republica cubana en el conflictivo aspecto de sus relaciones con Estados Unidos. La autora examina las crisis politicas de 1906, 1917 y 1921, durante las cuales la permanente amenaza de intervencion estadunidense alcanzo formas...

The Lingua Ignota, "brought forth" by the twelfth-century German nun Hildegard of Bingen, provides 1012 neologisms for praise of Church and new expression of the things of her world. Noting her visionary metaphors, her music, and various medieval linguistic philosophies, Higley examines how the "Unknown Language" makes arid signifiers green again. This text, however, is too often seen in too narrow a context: glossolalia, angelic language, secret code. Higley provides an edition and English translation of its glosses in the Riesencodex (with assistance from the Berlin MS) , but also places it ...

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