Herself Surprised, the first volume of Joyce Cary's remarkable First Trilogy, introduces Sara Monday, a woman at once dissolute and devout, passionate and sly.
A medida que avanzaba el trabajo de identificación y reseña de los libros de la Biblioteca Antigua del Archivo Histórico, se hizo evidente la conveniencia de revisar y poner al día la información actualmente disponible sobre sus libros incunables.
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.
To commemorate the 150th Anniversary of the end of the Civil War, Diversion Books is publishing seminal works of the era: stories told by the men and women who led, who fought, and who lived in an America that had come apart at the seams.
Durante los últimos veinte años la literatura etnográfica ha reportado distintas formas de comprender, crear y experimentar la temporalidad y la historia en el continente americano.
In this magisterial examination of the Presidency over the course of the 20th Century, the author explores the history of the world's greatest elective office and the role each incumbent has played in changing the scope of its powers.
Este libro pone su mirada en el Complejo Industrial Militar británico y, a través de él, en la OTAN y sus alianzas con Estados Unidos para sostener el colonialismo en las Islas Malvinas y en el Atlántico Sur.
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2021 BOOKER PRIZE AND SHORTLISTED FOR THE 2022 DYLAN THOMAS PRIZEA TIMES BEST PAPERBACK 2022, NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER 2021, OPRAH BOOK CLUB PICK AND BARACK OBAMA SELECTION'A fine, lyrical novel, impressive in its complex interweaving of the grand and the intimate, of the personal and political' ObserverLandry and Prentiss are two brothers born into slavery, finally freed as the American Civil War draws to its bitter close.
Born in Scotland and trained as a sugar broker in London, England, Sir George Simpson (1792-1860) was unexpectedly appointed in 1820 as governor of Rupert's Land and the Indian territories, an area encompassing all of Canada from Hudson Bay to the Pacific Ocean.
En el contexto del quiebre del imperio hispánico, los protagonistas actuantes se valieron de diversos recursos propagandísticos para legitimar su posición.
Founded on the principles of religious freedom, America in the 1800s was fertile ground for the expansion of religious movements and all kinds of experiments in spiritual matters.
El objetivo de este libro es iluminar las formas en que grupos de derecha argentinos y chilenos concibieron la relación entre nación y territorio en los siglos XIX y XX.
Walk along side of three of the most amazing Native American Women as they journey across the United Sates: Sacagawea, Watkuese and Marie Dorion, whose adventures are intertwined.
No gamble in history has been more momentous than the landfall of Columbus's ship the Santa Maria in the Americas in 1492 - an event that paved the way for the conquest of a 'New World'.
