Examen del encuentro entre Europa y América, y las transformaciones ocurridas mediante un proceso que comenzó con del descubrimiento y continúa hasta el presente siglo XXI.
'A crucial, riveting polemic in support of one of the most precious things humanity has built - democracy itself' OWEN JONES'Graham Smith shows what fools our rotten constitution makes of us, with a monarch as emblem of a country beset by nepotism, backhanders, chumocracy and inherited privilege.
Presentamos a los lectores académicos y público en general este trabajo de investigación con pretensiones de abarcar espacios y sociedades que en la globalidad permiten hablar de una unidad del Pacífico del Norte de Suramérica entre Colombia y Ecuador, con sus correspondiente valles interandinos del Cauca, Patía y Chota, con los cuales históricamente ha tenido relaciones que en su especificidad muestran los matices creados por la diversidad del medio y por las diversas formas de adaptación y resistencias de las sociedades negras al medio y a las relaciones conflictivas de dominio que allí se establecieron.
'an Indian household can no more be governed peacefully, without dignity and prestige, than an Indian Empire' InThe Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888) Flora Annie Steel and her co-author Grace Gardiner provide practical, and often highly opinionated, advice to young memsahibs in India.
Colombia's recent past has been characterized by what its Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez once called "e;a biblical holocaust"e; of human savagery.
Colombia's recent past has been characterized by what its Nobel laureate Gabriel Garcia Marquez once called "e;a biblical holocaust"e; of human savagery.
'an Indian household can no more be governed peacefully, without dignity and prestige, than an Indian Empire' InThe Complete Indian Housekeeper and Cook (1888) Flora Annie Steel and her co-author Grace Gardiner provide practical, and often highly opinionated, advice to young memsahibs in India.
Los ensayos que integran el libro que el lector tiene ahora entre sus manos se plantean como objetivo contribuir a desentrañar las relaciones existentes entre demonología cristiana y cultura folklórica en un escenario específico –España y el mundo ibérico– y, en un período determinado, los siglos de la primera modernidad.
"Para gran parte de la historiografía, la figura de José Celestino Mutis remite inmediatamente al proceso de Ilustración e incluso a la independencia de lo que hoy es Colombia.
'A historically insightful read'Financial Times 'A wry, rollicking, and provocative history' Michael Taylor, author of The Interest'A thought-provoking analysis of Africa's relationship with economic imperialism' Astrid Madimba and Chinny Ukata, authors of It's A ContinentWe need to think differently about African economics.
Hans Sloane was a young doctor from Northern Ireland who made his way in London and eventually become physician to the king and much of London society.
From Pankaj Mishra, author the successful Temptations of the West and Butter Chicken in Ludhiana, comes a provocative account of how China, India and the Muslim World are remaking the world in their own image.
Entre los textos aparecidos tras su muerte en 1919 se encuentran estas breves páginas que ahora rescatamos sobre el tema central de su obra literaria y su propia biografía.
This volume recounts the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, exploring how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they mean for us today.
This volume recounts the battles of Isandlwana and Rorke's Drift, exploring how they were fought, how they have been remembered, and what they mean for us today.
"e;Songs of the Sea - Poetry Dedicated to the Mayflower Voyage"e; is a collection of poetry by various poets, including James Russell Lowell, Greenleaf Whittier, Henry Wadsworth Longfellow, and others.
First published in 1858, "e;The Courtship of Miles Standish"e; is a narrative poem written by American poet Henry Wadsworth Longfellow about the 'Mayflower', an English ship that transported early Pilgrims to the New World in 1620.
Esta es una fuente de consulta para la resolución de diversas inquietudes sobre la identidad de las personas que ejercían la autoridad durante el año del comienzo del proceso de la Independencia.
