Jacques Pierre Brissot, who assumed the name of de Warville, a celebrated French Girondist, was born at Chartres, where his father was an inn-keeper, in January 1754.
La relación entre imagen y memoria con base en la novela Terra nostra (1975) de Carlos Fuentes abre distintas posibilidades de reflexión y debate que contribuyen a pensar América Latina desde nuevas lecturas.
Este libro es resultado de un proyecto de investigación que se inscribe en un macroproyecto que tiene como propósito pensar América Latina desde la literatura así como aborda el problema de la llamada identidad latinoamericana a partir del estudio profundo de Terra nostra una de las obras más complejas y arriesgadas de Carlos Fuentes fruto sin duda de la experimentación estética y formal que asumió la literatura en el contexto de las décadas de 1960 y 1970.
The riveting true story of one of Canadas worst mining disasters, told in the voices of the men who survived itThey said it was the worlds deepest and most dangerous coal mine.
The Lost History of the Capitol is an account of the many bizarre, tragic, and violent episodes that have occurred in and around the Capitol Building, from the founding of the federal capital city in 1790 up to contemporary times, including the events of January 6, 2021.
In 1884, twenty-three-year-old Corabelle Fellows left her family in Washington, DC, and journeyed out West to teach Native children in Nebraska and Dakota Territory.
In this highly anticipated follow-up to The Rifle, Andrew Biggio brings to light more untold stories from the quickly vanishing ranks of the veterans of World War II.
'Witty, knowledgeable and mind-expanding' RICHARD FISHER | 'A joyful romp' TOM HARFORD | 'A fun and inspiring teaser for curious minds' J R MIE HARRISEvery so often, a new idea comes along that changes everything.
Moving portraits of eighteen independent women who helped make Colorado what it is todayRemarkable Colorado Women profiles the lives of eighteen of the state's most important historical figureswomen from across Colorado, from many different backgrounds and from various walks of life.
Los textos que conforman el presente volumen fueron publicados por la revista clandestina Policarpo, entre los meses de mayo de 1983 y diciembre de 1985.
Jean Francois Marquis de Chastellux was a military officer in the rank of a major general who served during the War of American Independence in the French expeditionary forces led by general Comte de Rochambeau.
Moving portraits of eighteen independent women who helped make Colorado what it is todayRemarkable Colorado Women profiles the lives of eighteen of the state's most important historical figureswomen from across Colorado, from many different backgrounds and from various walks of life.
To civilized humanity world-wide, and especially to the descendants of the Pilgrims who, in 1620, laid the foundations of that civil and religious freedom upon which has been built a refuge for the oppressed of every land, the story of the Pilgrim "e;Exodus"e; has an ever-increasing value and zest.
Uno de los rasgos mas notables del panorama politico-intelectual de las decadas de 1960 y 1970 en Chile fue el desarrollo de un proceso de acercamiento e intercambio entre el cristianismo y el marxismo por quienes veian en muchas de las proposiciones del marxismo una via legitima para transformar la sociedad chilena y emprender en conjunto la construccion del socialismo entendido como una opcion con contenidos afines al Evangelio.
Part of the new Ladybird Expert series, Witchcraft is a clear, simple and entertaining introduction to the magical myths that have coloured the popular imagination for centuries.
The most thorough account yet available of a revolution that saw the first true agrarian reform in Central America, this book is also a penetrating analysis of the tragic destruction of that revolution.
A state of the union address as the twentieth century turned into the twenty-first-from the New York Times-bestselling author of America, the Last Best Hope.
The Articles of Confederation, formally the Articles of Confederation and Perpetual Union, was an agreement among the 13 founding states that established the United States of America as a confederation of sovereign states and served as its first constitution.
In Puttin' on Ole Massa the noted historian Gilbert Osofsky has edited the autobiographies of Henry Bibb, William Wells Brown, and Solomon Northup that tell of their time as slaves before the Civil War.
