Bereits in der späten Zarenzeit entwickelte sich Russland durch den Aufbau einer modernen Erdölindustrie im Kaukasus zu einem der weltweit führenden Erdölproduzenten und baute diese Position in der Sowjetzeit weiter aus.
Malos mexicanos aborda la dramatica historia de los magonistas, migrantes rebeldes que desencadenaron la Revolucion mexicana de 1910 desde los Estados Unidos.
En 1910 los crímenes de Santana Rodríguez Palafox, Santanón, comenzaban a convertirse en leyenda; esto desencadenó la persecución del bandido en la sierra veracruzana, encabezada por el político y poeta Salvador Díaz Mirón, el Bardo.
A través de la lectura de 650 cartas personales, el autor nos invita en este curioso libro a conocer la vida íntima de los emigrantes españoles en América.
A Financial Times Summer Read 2025A BBC Radio 4 'Book of the Week'Essential reading' - The Daily Telegraph'Not just well timed but admirably powerful' - The Guardian'Packed with revealing content' - IndependentUnderdogs is a surprising journey into the heart of the misunderstood white working class.
Ubiystvo Mikhoyelsa i razgrom Yevreyskogo antifashistskogo komiteta, moskovskaya kadentsiya Goldy Meir i metaniya oblassannogo Kremlem Il'i Erenburga, bor'ba s bezrodnymi kosmopolitami i «Delo vrachey», yudofobskiye «khozyaystvennyye» protsessy nachala 1960-kh i vsplyesk natsional'nogo samosoznaniya posle Shestidnevnoy voyny, antisemitskiye narrativy v sovetskoy propagande i deyatel'nost' servil'nogo Antisionistskogo komiteta — vsyo eto stalo predmetom rassmotreniya knigi.
En estas paginas (tomadas del libro Pasajeros de Indias, publicado por el FCE en 1999) se muestran las caracteristicas de los navios y las peripecias y tribulaciones que representaban los viajes trasatlanticos de Europa a America en el siglo XVI.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
A fascinating collection of questions and answersabout courtship, marriage, love, and sexfrom a seventeenth-century periodical The Athenian Mercurya one-page, two-sided periodical published in 1690s Londonincluded the world's first personal advice column.
Alexander McKee and Simon Girty were colonial British Indian agents who preferred to remain loyal to the government which had long employed them when the colonies decided to sever connections with the motherland.
Entre totes les vergonyes de l'horror nazi, n'hi ha una que ha passat força desapercebuda: la «concentració» d'alemanys d'origen jueu en les anomenades judenhaus, abans de les deportacions massives.
Die vielfältigen Begleiterscheinungen von Klimawandel und Artensterben werden geologisch mit dem Anbruch eines neuen Erdzeitalters, dem Anthropozän, identifiziert.
This volume explores how narratives and iconographic codes in literature, art, music, material culture and social, political, and economic discourses were appropriated and thereby - sometimes radically - transformed by religious agents, and how religious narrations, discourses and iconographic practices were reimagined and used (up to radical deconstruction) in non-religious contexts as well as in different or transformed religious contexts.
