Plantations, especially sugar plantations, created slave societies and a racism persisting well into post-slavery periods: so runs a familiar argument that has been used to explain the sweep of Caribbean history.
En los últimos años, se produjeron transformaciones económicas, políticas, sociales, culturales y tecnológicas que afectaron las formas de experimentar y de concebir a la temporalidad que, a su vez, provocaron un fuerte impacto en la agenda de las ciencias humanas y sociales.
The Age of Dissent argues that the defining feature of the Age of Revolutions in Latin America was the emergence of dissent as an inescapable component of political life.
La Colección Humanidades reúne los textos, resultados de investigaciones y/o actividades académicas de la Universidad Nacional de General Sarmiento, relacionados con las temáticas de historia, historiografía, historia argentina, historia latinoamericana, historia antigua y medieval, filosofía, epistemología y otras disciplinas de las ciencias humanas.
If countless books and movies are to be believed, Americas Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain mena mans world.
If countless books and movies are to be believed, Americas Wild West was, at heart, a world of cowboys and Indians, sheriffs and gunslingers, scruffy settlers and mountain mena mans world.
Es la misma complejidad de la crisis actual de cada historiador la que, proyectada sobre el pasado, multiplica interpretaciones entre sí incompatibles.
Esta investigación tiene como propósito analizar las medidas políticas de los gobiernos de la Regeneración (dos últimas décadas del siglo XIX) para erradicar las ideas liberales en la política colombiana.
Dos expresiones políticas, el peronismo con Perón como líder y el fenómeno guerrillero asociado con la revolución cubana, dominan los relatos de las dos décadas que transcurren entre los golpes de estado de 1955 y de 1976.
Montana is home to two of America's most popular national parks, and many of the twelve million visitors who travel to Big Sky Country each year include both Glacier and Yellowstone in their plans.
Gospel-Centered Theology for TodayEvangelical Theology, Second Edition helps today's readers understand and practice the doctrines of the Christian faith by presenting a gospel-centered theology that is accessible, rigorous, and balanced.
Dieses eBook: "Gesammelte Werke: Politische Schriften + Historiografische Werke" ist mit einem detaillierten und dynamischen Inhaltsverzeichnis versehen und wurde sorgfältig korrekturgelesen.
Floridas Coast-to-Coast Trail Guide is a guidebook designed specifically for the 250-mile dedicated bicycle/pedestrian trail that provides an uninterrupted cross-Florida trail from Titusville to St.
A New Yorker Best Book of the YearA Foreign Affairs Best Book of the YearAn Atlantic Best Book of the YearA Financial Times Best Politics Book of the YearHow a new breed of dictators holds power by manipulating information and faking democracyHitler, Stalin, and Mao ruled through violence, fear, and ideology.
Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award in BiographyA double portrait of two of America's most influential writers that reveals the surprising connections between themand their uncanny relevance to our age of crisisUp from the Depths tells the interconnected stories of two of the most important writers in American historythe novelist and poet Herman Melville (18191891) and one of his earliest biographers, the literary critic and historian Lewis Mumford (18951990).
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize, the National Book Award, the Bancroft Prize, and the Parkman PrizeFrom acclaimed diplomat and historian George Kennan, a landmark history of the crucial months in 1917-1918 that forged the pattern of Soviet-American relationsWhen the Bolsheviks seized power in November 1917, American diplomats in St.
En las Memorias de Rafael de Nogales Méndez (1879-1937) se cuentan las aventuras que vivió en numerosos países, describiendo con deleite a sus amigos, relaciones, actividades y costumbres.
George Washington (1732-1799) was an American statesman and soldier who served as the first President of the United States from 1789 to 1797 and was one of the Founding Fathers of the United States.
A uniquely personal account of the life and enduring legacy of the Renaissance libraryWith the advent of print in the fifteenth century, Europe's cultural elite assembled personal libraries as refuges from persecutions and pandemics.
