Catastrofes Aereas

A través de diálogos entre gente muy diversa, se revelan los temas que en ese momento apasionaban a los argentinos.

La visión tradicional del último siglo de la República romana, deudora de la obra de contemporáneos como Salustio o Cicerón, es el de un periodo de caótica entropía, en el que políticos sin escrúpulos sumieron al Estado en una violenta espiral de autodestrucción. Múltiples fueron los retos que Roma hubo de afrontar, desde la rebelión de los aliados itálicos en pos de la ciudadanía al levantamiento de esclavos y campesinos empobrecidos que fue la revuelta de Espartaco, desde la amenaza del temible Mitrídates a la invasión de cimbrios y teutones. Y todo ello enmarcado por...

Studies in Spanish American regional history have, as yet, made little attempt to incorporate the struggles for independence within the context of provincial society and politics viewed over the broader period that spans the late colonial and early national experience of Latin America. This book attempts a new perspective: it emphasises the provincial milieu and popular participation in its varied forms, often ambiguous and contradictory. The central aim is to examine social conflicts, chiefly in the Mexican provinces of Puebla, Guadalajara, Michoacán, and Guanajuato from the middle of the...

The Second World War began in August 1939 on the edge of Manchuria and ended there exactly six years later with the Soviet invasion of northern China. The war in Europe appeared completely divorced from the war in the Pacific and China, and yet events on opposite sides of the world had profound effects. Using the most up-to-date scholarship and research, Beevor assembles the whole picture in a gripping narrative that extends from the North Atlantic to the South Pacific and from the snowbound steppe to the North African Desert. Although filling the broadest canvas on a heroic scale, Beevor's...