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...

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...

La versión oficial habla del hundimiento de la Armada Invencible, los elementos, una Reina Isabel ambiciosa, un Felipe II enamoradizo y atontado, un héroe como el pirata Drake. Del final de la hegemonía naval y militar de los españoles. En parte, cierto. En parte, falso. Pero las peores mentiras son las que tienen parte de verdad. Por tanto embuste histórico. Monumental. La realidad es que tan solo un año después del episodio, Inglaterra fracasó, igualmente, en el intento de conquistar España desembarcando un ejército colosal desde Lisboa, ¡con la expedición más grande, en...

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A partir de fuentes mexicanas, europeas y estadounidenses, la mayor parte de ellas consultadas por primera vez, Katz reconstruye las actividades abiertas y secretas mediante las cuales las compañías extranjeras, sus gobiernos y agencias de inteligencia intentaron influir sobre el curso de la revolución mexicana. Este libro, que posibilita una reinterpretación de la historia del país, es también una contribución a la historia diplomática de la primera guerra mundial.