Espacios, climas y aventuras: El Galeón de Filipinas y la fragata de las Marianas en el Pacífico occidental (1680-1700)

The book edited by researchers Thomas Calvo and Paulina Machuca - both members of the project "Proyecto Vencer la distancia" (Overcoming the distance) - comprises the participation of fourteen specialists in the discipline of social sciences. "If the Philippines and Mexico had had very close relationships in the two and a half centuries that the Manila Galleon was sailing (1565-1815), the relations diluted when Mexico chose Independence and the Philippines continued under Spanish domain until 1898. It was precisely these years of disagreement that we were interested in: like all the periods...

Now a #1 New York Times Bestseller! A road trip book with a difference. Stars of Outlander- Sam Heughan & Graham McTavish - explore Scotland, a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare. From their faithful camper van to boats, kayaks, bicycles, and motorbikes, join stars of OutlanderSam and Graham on a road trip with a difference, as two Scotsmen explore a land of raw beauty, poetry, feuding, music, history, and warfare. Unlikely friends Sam and Graham begin their journey in the heart of Scotland at Glencoe and travel from there all the way to Inverness and Culloden...

Estados Unidos, ¿qué tanto conoce su historia? Todos necesitamos saber más acerca de esta tierra quequeremos. En esta historia apasionante de una nación, el pasado de nuestro paíscobra vida. Aquí tiene la historia de aquellos que escogimos para que nosguiaran y lo que hicieron con el asombroso poder que les dimos. De la valientey brillante mente del autor de gran éxito de ventas, William J. Bennett, llegaeste relato emocionante de las virtudes y vicios de nuestro gran país y losmuchos hombres y mujeres osados que lo convirtieron en la poderosa nación quees hoy. Una historia arrasante ...

Las grandes incógnitas de la Antigüedad y el Medievo, que desde siempre han despertado nuestra curiosidad más innata, reunidas en un solo libro, en el que estos enigmas serán resueltos de forma amena y tratados con celosa rigurosidad. Diez enigmas de la Historia Antigua y Medieval aparentemente sin conexión entre sí, que se suceden a lo largo del hilo temporal y que, sorprendentemente, los principales hechos narrados en ellos tienen un mismo motor: el anhelo de Occidente por la conquista de Oriente.

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