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The appearance of modern mercenaries came at the end of World War II including the French, British, and Belgians that acted during the decolonization process in the 60s and 70s. Currently, the classic mercenary has been replaced by private military companies like Blackwater. This is their story.

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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...

Alfonso I el Batallador, rey de Aragón y Pamplona y de Castilla y León por su matrimonio con Urraca, destacó en su época por la rápida expansión de sus reinos con las conquistas de Zaragoza, Tudela y Calatayud, y por tratar de establecer una vasta monarquía desde Galicia hasta los confines de Pallars. A todo ello se añade una importante labor como repoblador, concesión de fueros y organización de un territorio. Su atípico testamento, por el que legaba sus reinos a las órdenes de Tierra Santa, constituye un verdadero reto para los historiadores. El objeto de la presente obra es...