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En diciembre de 1914, sir Ernest Shackleton y una tripulación de veintisiete hombres zarpó de Georgia del Sur a bordo del Endurance rumbo al Polo Sur, con el objetivo de cruzar la Antártida, el último continente inexplorado, por tierra. Un mes más tarde, con temperaturas de 35 grados bajo cero, el barco encallaba en el hielo del mar de Weddell, en las afueras del Círculo Polar Antártico. Más de un año después, y todavía a medio continente de distancia de la base deseada, la nave estuvo amarrada al hielo flotando hacia al noroeste, antes de ser finalmente aplastada por la fuerza del ...

"Una nación llamada Venezuela", verdadero clásico del estudio de la historia en nuestro país, conoce una nueva edición, corregida y aumentada. En ella, al formato inicial de siete conferencias dictadas en la Cátedra Libre "Venezuela" de la Universidad Central de Venezuela en los años setenta, se suma una octava charla que complementa lo que ha sido y es el propósito fundamental de Germán Carrera Damas: proponer la posibilidad de una nueva perspectiva crítica para el estudio de la historia contemporánea de Venezuela, así como formular conceptos relativos al enfoque prospectivo del...

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