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Cuba se ha enfrentado a la muerte a lo largo de su rocosa historia y la mayoría de las veces le ha mirado a los ojos y ha sonreído.

"Revolución" es un concepto fundamental en la experiencia política moderna y contemporánea. Si bien hoy en día parece haber perdido la potencia política que tuvo durante los últimos dos siglos, lo cierto es que sin este concepto tendríamos dificultades para poder expresar y entender experiencias, expectativas, estados de cosas y procesos sociales significativos tanto del pasado como del presente. Sin embargo, esto no siempre fue así. Como todo concepto, revolución también tiene una historia cuya comprensión requiere atender a la vez a sus aspectos lingüísticos y sociopolíticos....

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...

Many books have been written about Juan Ponce de Leon. Many of them fall short because not enough research has been done on the man's life, his ancestors and who his legitimate wife was. The author has spent over ten years researching within the Ministry of Culture Spain to retrieve documents and has come away with some new and exciting discoveries. This book has been written for the historian as well as the amateur genealogist. John Browne Ayes is an experienced Biogeographical DNA Genealogist and Paleographologist. He has had his yDNA and mtDNA tested and has used the scientific results to...